But before that fear-inspiring day comes, first will come the Great Tribulation.  Jesus Christ’s words: "There will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again." He said that "immediately after" the beginning of that great tribulation, "the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken." (Matthew 24:21, 29) This helps us to pinpoint the timing of the day of Jehovah. It is just ahead. The Scriptures indicate that the great tribulation will destroy "Babylon the Great," the world empire of false religion. Then, as the climax of the great tribulation, Jehovah’s day will wipe God’s enemies off the face of the earth. (Revelation 17:5, 12-18; 19:11-21).

You also said:

"thank God for orgs. like the American Rifle Assoc., but even so, I do dread the reality that this issue is surely on the government's agenda and the agenda of the One World Order, and "order" is a key word that is Not in favor of freedom!"

Well, it's not the God that we all should serve that you can thank for organizations like that, but the god of this system of things, Satan the Devil.  You see, the Bible plainly states that Satan rules this world, and thus controls all the governments in it.  "One World Order" will never take place until Satan is destroyed, and that will only take place by Jehovah God's coming theocratic government.

Daniel 2:44, "And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people.  It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite."

"Those kings" are the current world leaders, and their "kingdoms" or governments, will be crushed and ended by God's new government headed by His son Jesus Christ for a thousand years.

Currently, the whole world is looking to Obama as its savior.  How detestable this is to God!  Man cannot solve man's problems.

Jeremiah 10:23, "I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."

No amount of "freedom" can bring about the change that is needed to save this world.  And certainly "the right to bear arms" cannot do this.  This world is condemned to destruction.  Not the literal world itself, but the majority of the people on it, just as in the days of Noah.  The literal world itself, the earth, will stand to time indefinite!

Ecc. 1:4, "A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite."

Again, there will be no guns in Jehovah God's new system.  All will live in peace and harmony with a hope of everlasting life.  But to be a part of that, you must "Obey God as ruler, rather than men." (Acts 5:29)  God said do not kill.  This means no killing with guns or by any other means, even if one's government, controlled by Satan, tells them to.  Disregard for this law is why during the World Wars there were brothers of the same faith killing one another, i.e., American Catholics killing German Catholics, German Protestants killing American Protestants, etc., etc.  All in disobedience to God!  And probably more detestable than that, the false religious leaders, the priests and pastors and preachers on opposite sides of these nations, were asking for God's blessing of the killing machines, the cannons and bombs being operated by the very men who were disobeying God!

Lastly for now, Kim, let me tell you a short story about a faithful Christian brother and his family who endured for years in a war-torn country where at times over a thousand bombs an hour were being dropped!  At the beginning of this war in Lebanon, the elders in his congregation warned them not to hoard up food or acquire weapons for self defense, but to rely on Jehovah to help them through this horrible time.  Well, they did just that!  But their neighbors, who were not Jehovah's Witnesses and who stored up guns and food, lost their lives due to this very fact!  And not from soldiers, but from civilians.  You see, when the civil chaos and panic and rioting and hunger got bad enough, their houses were broken into and they were murdered for their food and guns! 

Yes, we "must obey God as ruler, rather than men."  Place your lives and hope not in guns or governments, but in Jehovah God!  This very scenario of the civil chaos and rioting will take place right here in the United States as well as all over the world during the Great Tribulation soon to come.  People will be killing even for food.  No amount of money will save them either!  As Jesus Christ said, "Then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short." (Matt. 24:21, 22) 

My hope and prayers for you all is this:

"Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal. Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal"!  (Matt. 6:19, 20)

Terry