That kinda reinforces my point. That kind of resistance is successful because of the political and moral cost of bringing the full weight of the US military capability upon those sheepherders. It's that way because the world is watching, including Americans, and the tactics required for a complete victory are not socially acceptable to the Western world. Truly tyrannical governments, like the former Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, China, etcetera, have no moral qualms with tactics such as mass extermination of its people who disagree with the state.
Of course disarming society before a government goes full on murderous is a necessary step in a government becoming full on murderous. So this is essentially my counter argument to those who claim that our AR 15s are no match for nukes, let's say. Well. No. The weapons ordinary citizens are allowed to have are not competitive with the weapons the US military has. But to become tyrannical, our government would have to figure out how to escalate violence against it's own people and not lose the political capital it requires to maintain power. If we're unarmed, we're already conquered and therefore incapable of even making them work to earn their tyranny. That was the point.
