Law enforcement vs individual liberty has always been a tricky compromise. I don't support anyone at the extremes, and both sides have naive argments.
Choose your liberties wisely. That one about bearing arms isn't working out so well and now it can never be withdrawn.
No, you're just duped by media to think that owning arms is a bad idea.
We are a country where the power is enshrined in the citizenry. We have our voice, our press and our guns, among other things, to make sure that the power resides with us. Our voice and our press are our first lines of defense. Those will hopefully, through reason and integrity, allow us to come to reasonable solutions, but the day that they say religion is banned, expression is banned, the press is banned, gays are banned, liberalism is illegal, they will only be able to take those rights from us when they physically show up and stop you or take you away. At that point, everything about the 2nd amendment becomes clear. It is the right that ensures that this country will remain in the hands of and in the power of the citizenry. It is essential to the concept of, for the people and by the people. We are the power, not the government.
If you think armed citizens cant face off against military forces, you're wrong. They can. They can stop police action to round people up, they can put to halt any crazy tyrannical methodology short of carpet bombing our towns. The 2nd amendment is essential to liberty and is one of the pillars that preserves the power that is in our hands. Be just as quick to limit its power in our hands as you would want to limit your own freedom of speech.