When our government fails to uphold their moral and legal obligations, it is the responsibility of ordinary citizens to take direct action.
Discussion
In Congress, July 4, 1776
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
This is why Americans were given the right to bear guns.