Ah...and gee...haven't like 20 Attorney Generals filed lawsuits WITHIN OUR COURT System to challenge the constitutionality of the healthcare bill? So, that claim will be addressed.
That option wasn't available to our forefathers. They couldn't get redress through elections or the courts...hence a revolution became necessary.
We aren't living in those conditions today...so, to threaten violence is still wrong and Un-American.
You haven't the foggiest idea of why the 2nd was added to the Constitution.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court
And guess what, people were voting when all these quotes originated.
I got more of them if you need them..............
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1960
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
-- Hitler, April 11 1942