The US’s violence budget far exceeds any existing well regulated militia, let alone Cletus’ gun cabinet.

And yet the US lost in Vietnam, despite dropping more tons of bombs on Vietnam alone than used in the entirety of WW2. Come on, the entire 20th century was a story of revolutionary groups inventing the science of guerilla warfare. Small poorly armed forces can take on nation states in the right condition. Did you just...forget...the entire last century of history?