Egypt provides another example for why people should be armed.

[Atypical Liberal]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/30/egypt.security.scene/index.html?hpt=T2

"By night, some defied a government curfew and took to the streets again -- armed with guns, swords and sticks to fend off looters and protect their homes.

Many streets in the nation's capital were left without security after police stopped patrolling.

Kareem Amer told CNN that houses in his Cairo neighborhood had been ransacked.

"We've been hearing gunshots left and right all night long. ... The men of each household have come down and formed their own group militias holding down security for every building," he said."

When the tenuous fabric of civilization tears, it's up to the people to defend their neighborhoods, homes, and families.