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MULLER: "If you want to break into my house, you're not going to hear me calling 911. You're going to hear me chambering a round."

HELLER: "Take Hitler. He said, 'Governments are fools that let their people have guns'. Hitler wanted total power. Are we going to be disarmed? No! Do we want another Hitler? No! What do we want? Freedom!"

Gun rights activists converged on Virginia's Fort Hunt National Park armed with rifles, pistols and strong rhetoric against a government they believe is infringing on their Constitutional rights. Unarmed protesters gathered in Washington, D.C. for the same purpose.  But do they have a legitimate complaint, or are they biting the hand that feeds their freedoms?

We've got perspectives from The Washington Post, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, NBC and Salon.

At the "Restore the Constitution" rally in Virginia, a gun enthusiast explains to the Washington Post her reasons for attending.

COOK: "It started with my first little pink BB gun, you know. Just in the backyard, you know, shooting over milk bottles. But no matter how much I weight train or endurance train, I'm not going to be able to outpower a man if he tries to, you know, hurt me. So, the Second Amendment, to me, is the right to defend myself."

The Richmond Times-Dispatch says some D.C. protesters claimed to be under attack. The paper quotes one protester as saying:

"They're coming for our freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They're coming for everything because they're a bunch of socialists!"

NBC reports gun advocates might might be blaming the same government that made their protests possible.

ANCHOR: "The Virginia demonstration is said to be the first armed protest of its kind in a national park. It was made possible by a law signed by President Obama."

Salon says the protesters' attitudes toward the Obama administration are both ironic and frustrating.

"President Obama...being the big terrible tyrant that he is, signed a law saying guns were OK in National Parks, clearly a sneaky move meant to limit people's freedom by providing them with more freedom!"

So what do you think? Should gun owners be concerned that the government is limiting their freedoms? Or are they aiming their anger in the wrong direction?

Writer: Elizabeth Eberlin

Producer: Newsy Staff