Well 40% of the population or so approves of the administration, so it's more like "to save themselves from their government and 40% of the rest of the populati

Well 40% of the population or so approves of the administration, so it's more like "to save themselves from their government and 40% of the rest of the population". That means resorting to the 2A is, at the very best, a rather weak bet.