but they won’t know how to use them.

...

I can assure you even a child can use a rifle. Sadly it happens every day.

And that "resistance" is not going to have access to any type of weapon that would require more than five minutes of training.

I was military, my dad was military, a grand dad was, multiple aunts/uncles were, literally innumerable cousins...

I can assure you not all of my family is intelligent, and the military designs things for the lowest common denominator.

Even nuclear engineering in the military isn't exactly challenging, the training is just intentionally stressful so it will be harder than actual service.

Like, look at other actual resistances in other countries, you don't even know what will be used as weapons in a hypothetical resistance...

And this place is better than reddit, but I don't think I could get more specific than that

Edit:

Also, intelligence and compassion aren't correlated.

In fact once you get more than a couple standard deviations above average, misanthropy tends to be one the norm.

It's hard to explain. Imagine someone just walks up and hits you in the balls, then acts surprised that you're hurt and upset with them

Long before a very intelligent person understands that they're very intelligent...

They just think every other human is an inconsiderate asshole we doesn't put a second of thought into how their actions effects others. It is incredible easy and unfortunately common for that opinion to stuck around for a long time.