Yes they are victims of tyranny. Obviously, the only reason they are carrying long guns is because that is the only option affair fed them by a tyrannical government. It matters not if you think it unwise to do something especially when it comes to exercising a right. If it's ok to suppress one right then it's ok to suppress all of them.
And in case you didn't know the constitution wasn't written to keep government from violating our rights. It was to show the government how to protect our rights and secure them.
Read the Declaration of Independence and it will tell you exactly why they created this government. A private entity doesn't have the right to violate any persons right unless there is a law being broken.
Yes the government has strayed VERY far from the initial purpose it was created for.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,