Not-unrelatedly, a history of political privately-owned firearms use in the US looks pretty bad for the "it's for FREEDOM!" side of the debate. They're used to enforce (local) tyranny or abridgment of civil rights, at least as often and at least as effectively as they're used to defend freedom. If we ever see a full turn toward authoritarianism, I fully expect private arms will be more help than hindrance to its rise.
There were other powers on North America.
But no, instead we should pretend it had something to do with shooting a president you don't like. Because that's what "freedom from tyranny" is.
As flawed as the founding fathers were, they were probably smart enough to understand that the nature of the threats the country would face were likely to evolve over time.
Do you think this makes you look smart?
The important thing is you feel smug.
Veering offtopic a little, but your comment reminded me, hilariously, that after Stay-At-Home was mandated, my older, "prepper" friends and acquaintances were generally the first to crack and start complaining on Facebook about unfair it was that they were expected to just stay home in their bunkers and not go to bars and shop for their khakis. So much for the rugged self-reliance they loved to crow about!
I can imagine the Internet Anarchists behaving the same way. They'll be, in reality, the first to sign up for the AmazoGoogoMetaAppleInternet so they can keep posting to Social Media and doing their online shopping.