> Is the Right willing to die to keep their guns and their freedom? <
It depends on the speed of the encroachment.
If it is done gradually, the answer is no.
If it is done rapidly, the answer is maybe.
I can think of no * reasonable * scenario where a critical mass on the Right would rise up. Individuals might rise up, and then get swatted down. And many more might engage in passive resistance.
But it ain’t 1776 anymore. As just one example of that, we put up with a tax rate today that is much worse than the old Stamp Tax of colonial days. Nobody much cares today...because it was done gradually.
Many factors involved.
The Stamp Tax was without any representation in Parliament.
The colonists were much,much, more self-contained.
Today, we are very much more prosperous and urbanized. Well fed, prosperous people do not a revolution make.
On the contrarian side, we have regained much.
It is likely the confiscation will not occur, because the powers that be will not see much benefit from it.
And Big Media will say that they were "terrorists" and "cop killers" and "Free Republic" will cheer their destruction.