This forum is for learning about gun rights and issues pertaining to them as they are under constant real threat by government officals, burecrats, and even agencies participating in "entrapment" schemes. This type of discussion doesn't belong here AT ALL as it may paint a view that there are members here that are not commited to our peaceful political movement to regain our rights and promote a Constitutional form of government.
You don't have ANY rights, gun or otherwise, unless you are willing to defend those rights with
force if peaceful opposition and resistance should fail. Barring that willingness, you'll simply do as you're told or be destroyed with impunity. There is NO limit to what those who are willing to use aggressive force can do to those who are unwilling to use defensive force.
The Founders understood this. Ron Paul understands it (and has stated it explicitly). Why do you think the Founders put the Second Amendment into the Constitution? It wasn't to ensure that people had the right to hunt or engage in recreational shooting.
If the point of this forum is not to discuss armed resistance to potential future tyranny, then this forum has nothing to do with the Second Amendment, and those words should be removed from the forum description.
Moreover, if American gun owners have the attitude that they will
never take up arms under any circumstances, then who really cares if we lose our gun "rights"? What do we need them for? No one needs anything more than a single-shot weapon for hunting or target shooting. Might as well turn in everything else right now. Leave the combat-worthy weapons to the only people who will use them: the military and police.
"High-value" targets as you mentioned has nothing to do with self defense.
That depends on the circumstances. Under true conditions of naked tyranny, the best defense for our rights will be a good offense.