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32% of Americans own guns. 45% of those gun owners identify as conservative, while only 15% identify as liberal. The U.S. population is around 350 million people, while there are an estimated 500 million guns.
So, assuming a roughly even distribution of guns per household (although my gut says the conservatives are more likely to own multiple guns), we can estimate about 48 million Americans who support the Trump regime holding on to about 225 million guns, while 16 million people with 75 million guns oppose him. Those are pretty rough numbers, but they're close enough to illustrate that the 2nd amendment won't help us. The majority of Americans oppose Trump, but the vast majority of guns support him.
What about the other 40%?
If they only have 2 arms then having multiple weapons is less impressive - they can only fire one at a time.
The other 40% are independents. Difficult to say which way they lean, but we'd need almost all of them to oppose the regime to stop being the minority. I assume you're being tongue and cheek about the, "two arms," thing, but in case you're not, having multiple guns would make it easier to arm friends/family who share their ideology and create a paramilitary force (although, right now, if you wanted to join a right-wing paramilitary force to enact violence against your perceived liberal enemies, you could just join ICE).
Start talking to Conservatives, listen, and find a compromise that the majority can support.
There are pretty good odds you'd get shot for ringing the doorbell.
How are the odds for waiting until the civil war to meet them?
The civil war has debatably already begun in Minneapolis, and anyone not swayed by the footage of Renee Good being murdered by ICE isn't going to be swayed by a common ground on healthcare costs.