[krapp]

Only some of us have a deep, abiding distaste for centralized authority, fewer still to the point of violence, and our nation was founded by elite slaveholding landowners who still shut down petty rebellions after they took power rather than duly submit themselves to the gallows on behalf of some common hatred they held with the people for their own state.

Hell, when Benjamin Franklin said that "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," he was arguing in favor of the government's right to form a collective defense, collect taxes and regulate the militia.

The founding fathers didn't mistrust centralized authority, they mistrusted the authority of the Crown.