Re: "Absolutely no one can make sense of the United States' infatuation with firearms."
Yeah, because a bunch of hicks with rifles is going to be able to stop a totalitarian government that controls the military?
Now, if you were part of a trained militia, which is the part of the whole 2nd Amendment that your dear munition manufacturers and their spokespeople, the NRA have completely left out, you might have a hope in hell. As a bunch of individuals? Not a chance.