He then asked if I was willing to shoot someone over my xbox.
I told him, "The xbox was besides the point. We are talking about a person intruding into my house at night with my family present. Hell yes, I'd shoot him. It's the principle of the thing. I'd shoot a hole in my xbox without blinking to do it."
I'm saying that prudence is good, but that as the train of abuses and usurpations gets longer it will get to the point when doing the right thing to establish an institution that better secures rights becomes a necessity.
"Stealing the country" should be WAY past that point.