Reply #81: Then, my friend, you need to factor the outside world into the outcome [View All]

No savy revolutionary takes the go-it-alone approach to self preservation in order to further a greater cause. Its like putting a fire out with gasloine. The mobs angry shouts will be forgotten or buried; the only real event will be the weapon discharge.

Choose your priority: Liberalism/Civil Society, or self-preservation.

If it comes to blows, make sure you are defensive/not firing, and appeal to another, civilized government to intervene whenever possible.

As for the person who imagined the military would use guns, I think you are mistaken. The response would be bi-polar: Either nets and foam and gas to incapacitate and mute you, or cluster bombs and fully-automatic weapons with depleted uranium bullets deployed from the air.

They will leave the cute little guns for the police, and it may not take the military long to sweep them aside.