Again....But it's never the guns!

[Tiberius]

And this is relevant how? Many countries have had revolutions, yet their populations no longer have this mad gun fetish.

It's relevant because it was a turning point in American history. They triumphed against a tyrannical system and set up their own government based on the values of liberty. The founding fathers realized that whilst they needed to defend themselves as a nation, they could not ask their citizens to trust the government to have all the guns and use them responsibly, so they added an amendment to the constitution that means ordinary citizens can bear arms, in case the time comes when they need to stand up against the government again.

IMO, it's a very good amendment. Yes, other countries have had revolutions, and sometimes they work...but a lot of the time they fail and end up with even more oppressive governments than they had before.

The vast majority??
"The rate of private gun ownership in the United States is 88.82 firearms per 100 people"

You can't tell anything from that statistic at all. Some people own more than one firearm...some own only one. A few people probably own dozens (and would qualify for your "armed to the teeth" description). However, saying that there are 88.82 firearms per 100 people does not necessarily mean that 88.82% of people in America own a gun. Indeed, knowing that there are people with more than one gun, and in some cases, many more than one gun, the percentage of people who own at least one gun is probably a lot lower.

Depends on your definition of armed to the teeth. Only about 1 in 3 Americans own a gun at all and something less than half of American households have a gun.

Indeed, and I'd say that owning one gun is not armed to the teeth. Hell, having two or three isn't either. It depends on way more factors than that, like the type of gun and how much ammunition is stored. A guy with 10 handguns in display cabinets and one box of ammunition is IMO not "armed to the teeth".