I would say that you're wrong then. As a check on the government guns are useless right now. You cannot point to a single time when the threat of the gun carrying public has ever stopped the government from doing shit since like the 1700's. I don't think it will ever 'get bad enough' where owning guns will be a significant factor in anyone's action against the government. That the whole 'America is salvageable because gunz' thing that was being peddled earlier is simply a massive cope. It's the 'Yeah, you better walk away!' but the government doesn't walk away, they just ignore you and walk over you regardless. Saying 'Oh well they haven't done enough' doesn't change that. Do you think you live in a healthy, good society? Or a fair and just society? Or a non corrupt society? Do you think that your vote matters? That the democratic system is working for you? You think the Khulaks were like 'Oh well, the government hasn't done enough to set me off yet' What're you going to do? The only time you'd ever be able to use your dammed guns would be when the whole country is baying for blood, any other time and your neighbor would sell your arse down the river.
Like I don't think you should be shooting at the government, but I don't think it would do fuck all anyway. The Irish tried to keep us out since the 1900's, and those cunts have had guns, bombs, training, equipment, intel, the home advantage and the entire history of that is essentially 'Ireland got stomped on, cried a bit, and then got stomped on some more' and the paramilitary 'victory' resulted in us going 'Okay guys, you can have your own parliament' and then we proceeded to ignore said parliament and laugh as the Irish did a crying wojack and their government fell apart and we still rule NI, we still have the walled towns set up, we still enforce the law there and they're still our bitch. 800 years of resistance led to nothing, even with guns, even with will, even with bombs. We rolled up with the secret police (special branch), swung our dick around and the locals sung like birdies about the 'peoples army'.
The American system has numerous checks and balances on power. Like as much as I'm here going 'REEEEE AMERIFATS GO AWAY' like a seething Europeon they still have it better than the UK. Tony Blaire is probably the best lesson in British history on how to consolidate, centralise and then exert political power while still looking like the good guy. He sold off half our country, flooded it with pakis, got us embroiled in an illegal war, stripped away our civil liberties and enriched himself and his party members (many of whom carried on with multiple bohemian style affairs while in power) and people still see the cunt as the 'fair and moderate candidate' because he controlled the media and their spin on him. America's got plenty of checks and balances, but they also have plenty of fuckwits. All the checks and balances in the world won't save you if half the system won't play ball.
Ahhh, fuck I opened it!