Two words: Warsaw Ghetto.
A very small group of people with nothing left to lose took a handful of handguns and held off the most powerful military in the world.
The method was as old as war.
Use the inferior weapon to get a better one from an enemy soldier, hand the inferior weapon to the next guy on your side.
Warsaw was only taken when the National Socialists gave up on capturing it intact and leveled the place.
That going to fly here?
The Germans had nobody they knew or cared about living in Poland. Their only reason for wanting Warsaw somewhat intact was spoils. Loot.
It's a refrain that repeats over and over.
A tiny group of determined resistors can pin down gigantic militaries.
Something that hasn't happened yet is a resistance spawning from a place were guns were present in one of three households before the shooting started.
If a handful of handguns can hold off Nazi Germany, how will millions of AR's fare?
If around 700 IRA terrorists can stop The Royal Army for decades, how will millions of gun owners fare?
Militaries hate counterinsurgency. The US military, by the way, isn't good at it. Our endgame is always to give up and go home.
A domestic insurgency will not have that option. They're already home.
Their supply lines are very dispersed thanks to pork-barrel spending policies. How long does that whiz-bang drone keep flying when there's no transportation out of Wichita for a few days and a widget becomes unavailable? Then, when they solve that outage, another component is delayed from Titusville?
Never mind the antenna farms that allow those things to work are fixed installations HERE and are WAY more accessible to an American resistance fighter than around the planet like in Afghanistan.
The really sad thing is its not necessary.
"Don't start none, won't be none," is actually in place. The American gun owner isn't committing crime and wishes to be left alone.
But keep poking at them and eventually there's going to be a violent reaction. Remember what I said about the Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, "nothing left to lose."
NEVER back someone with nothing left to lose into a corner.
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The same thing could be said of the later Warsaw Uprising, in 1944. For reasons, it gets rather less ink in the US, but it was bigger. Even the Germans were in awe of the Polish Home Army's stand, and as they marched out to surrender, many German soldiers saluted them in honor of their valor.
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