The 2nd Amendment and Over Reaching Government

We have two classic examples of what happens when the people do or do not have guns.

The federal government's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) brought out well armed agents to enforce its regulations on a lone rancher in Nevada, a telling over reach of government power.  They hastily backed down and retreated when faced with an equal or larger group of well armed citizens.

Then, we have the situation in the Ukraine where an over reaching powerful neighboring country, Russia, quietly assumes power over the country unopposed.  Why?  Because the citizens were not armed with guns and did not have equal or greater fire power.

Never, never ever under estimate the importance of the 2nd Amendment and the power it has in the hands of the citizens to keep a tyrannical government in check.