A 4chan anon talk about the importance of armed resistance toward tyranny, even with there’s a big difference in fire power:
The point is not that you can win pitched battles against a profession army with all its ordinance as a rag-tag citizens militia with small arms. The point is that you CAN FIGHT. You can bleed them. When they come patrolling through your neighborhood, you might be able to take a couple of the fuckers with you. Hell, you might even be able to run away and do it again – theoretically you wouldn’t be alone and they couldn’t engage in endless “manhunts” for everyone who resisted them. And they’d never feel safe; there could be a shooter behind any window.
Of course they could call in the artillery and air support and level your neighborhood; sure. What would this get them? Well, it would piss a lot of people off when innocents died and play into the hands of rebels. It would make a lot of the soldiers in that professional military seriously consider whether they were doing the right thing or not. And finally, it would simply kill people, and no one wants to rule a nation of corpses.
The aim of a tyrant is to control, not to kill. What they want is to be able to have militarized police/gestapo point guns at people and cow them into submission to whatever dictates they might want to impose. If those people are instead waiting behind their doors and ready to shoot first when the jackbooted thugs come around, they’ve already failed.
So the point is to fight. IF you resist, you’re not being controlled, and you’re also undermining attempts to control others who can’t or won’t fight; you might die, of course. That’s why Patrick Henry said what he famously said, more or less.
As long as people can resist, they can be free, and tyrants can never succeed. But when you’re talking about using swords and knives and clubs against modern military weapons it ACTUALLY becomes pointless, because you can’t bleed them at all – they’ll just shoot you with beanbags and rubber and water cannons and microwave guns etc.
That’s why having guns is so important.
While I think the above is very true on a personal level, it’s also proving to be surprisingly true on an international level. Even if a nation is weaker, as long as it has some level of military and is ready to resist, it can still put up a fight and deny an aggressor of what it might want. Case in point the increasingly frustrated rhetoric coming out of the US president regarding the ongoing US/Iran war:
And lastly, a rather disturbing example of a weaker nation resisting against a stronger one from the past:
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Temple of Zagan 