Logically, if you fear the government, you should also have a transmitting radio and a reloading bench (with a fat stockpile of primers) at home, solar cells, a PVC pipe filled with gold and silver coins buried in your backyard, a tamper-resistant dash-cam in your car, and a packed bag--with medical supplies--hanging by your back door.

If just a gun is enough to reduce your fear, you haven't been thinking about it hard enough. (Or maybe not playing enough Fallout.) Battles can be lost with poor logistics before strategy or tactics even come into play.

If you ever see a day where you need that gun against a rampaging government, you're not going to be able to make full use of paper dollars, public networks, broadcast media, retail stores, power grid, refueling stations, police, hospitals...

I think people actually keep guns because they fear both too much government against them and not enough of it for them.