The loss of freedom. It boils down to the more we are controlled and the less we can do/have the less free we are. I do not believe anyone is better than anyone and that no one has the right to tell anyone else how to live. If you are not committing a crime against another and taking away their liberty what right does anyone have to tell someone what they can or cannot have. Regarding the founders. It's not the fact of having weaponry to match the government. At this point it's the fact that the government would willingly and knowingly have to kill millions of people who are armed in order to gain compliance. If America did not have any means of defense there would barely be thousands killed to force compliance. Again I ask. Are we free? Do you feel free? I may not feel as free as those who lived in 1776 but I know one thing. I want to be free. And the only way to help the citizenry is to arm them. Look at all the "great" empires of the world that span time, the one constant is they did not allow their populous to be armed. That way the government had nothing to fear.