True-but McCain wants to spy on me and make me subject to punishment without any right to challenge the government's claims. My guns are important, but they won't protect me from an executive branch that doesn't need a reason to detain me for life.
This is a very real concern. This is not only just as important as the right to bear arms, it is more important. Here is why:
Imagine the day when some doesn't like what you said about politics or someone decides that you have bought too many guns and suddenly you are in jail as a terrorist. No one is contacted to let them know that you have been taken, no one will admit you have been taken, no phone call, no attorney, no rights - you are just gone for good and completely at the governments mercy and completely helpless.
Forget about your cowboy fantasies of fighting them off with you arsenal of guns too. It won't go like a western shootout where the sherriff calls you out at high noon. You won't see them coming and when you realize what is happening it will be too late. Your gone.
Forget the idea of your fellow gun owners rising up to save you too. They won't even know your gone and what has happened to you for months. And once they do, the details of your arrest will be filled with terrorist rhetoric that they might even believe.
Even in the rare chance that they do believe in you and think that your arrest is an injustice, money back gaurentee that none of them will actually physically do anything to help you. Their closet full of semi autos and high capacity mags is not much of a match for our police, fbi, cia or military is it? Not to mention the fear they will feel about their association with you getting them taken away themselves.
Now lets be clear.
I want both due process and the right to bear arms. So, that begs the question, how do we get both? I think the answer lies not just in being politically active on gun rights, but on due process too. That is why I am willing to have Obama in the whitehouse. I truly believe we will gain far more on due process and other issues than we will loose on gun rights.