Quote Originally Posted by Soulforged
I see. So the right is only applicable when in an hypotetical situation the USA are threatened by an external menace. That's only reassuring the sovreingnity of the state of the USA, and nothing more. Right?
Exactly.
No, I think you are confused. You are putting the cart before the horse. The right to bear arms is to ENSURE that our other rights, such as the first amendment are not violated, by outside powers or domestic.

So while under the first amendment you do not have the right to advocate the violent overthrow of the government, if one day that government became so tyranical that it began to ignore, or reverse that right and others, it would be our right, and duty, to overthrow that government and restore one of, by, and for the people.

I can see where on the outside it might not make sense, but to Americans it does.

You have freedom to speak your mind up to the point where your freedom begins to take away someone else's. So you can't walk into a theatre and shout fire and cause a stampeed that causes people to be killed. You can't go into someone's private property and refuse to leave. You can't ask someone to murder someone etc. All the 2nd amendment does is make sure that if a government were corrupt, they would not be able to assume absolute power (I believe one of Hitler's first acts was to disarm his population).

So if tommorow Bush announced he was president for life, and the congress decided that sounds like a good idea, and the courts were powerless to do anything about it, then the only option left would be to submit or take up arms.