>>And yes, she's not advocating it, contrary to the claims of a news show (MSNBC) whose ratings continue to plummet . It is one thing to misquote in honest error, and quite another to put up enough straw men to fill the state of Kansas.
OK, but consider whether "A" government can be anything except "the" government if you're carrying a firearm for protection today. Against that you could argue that actually the government was her own crew in 2012 when she said this. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
