Not to mention you don't have the types of weapons needed to resist. The whole idea is foolish. It does not have support because Joe Avarage is more afraid of radical with a gun than government forces. One recent example came from New Zeland.
One principle of guerrilla warfare is the use of smaller weapons to get larger ones .... or the weapons you have to get the weapons you need.
People certainly are afraid of the "radical with a gun." New Zealand is making good use of the old Clintonian principle of "never let a tragedy go to waste;" ie., in the immediate aftermath of a grotesque shooting, while everyone is emotional and they aren't thinking rationally (which is pretty rare in the best of times anyway),
quick! Make new gun laws restrictions gun rights and banning as many guns as possible!!!
I honestly don't know what would happen in America if a real nation-wide gun confiscation were to happen. I suspect the big coastal cities where liberalism is popular might go along, while in "fly-over country," where people are more conservative and are more numerous, you'd see everything from people hiding or burying guns, to possible local outbreaks of "Mad-Max" -like resistance breaking out if the government agencies got more aggresive.
I don't have a crystal ball, nor do you, or any others on this forum. I used to be really cynical and claim there would be to many "couch potatos" to go full mad max. I'm not sure that is accurate .... even a small determined force can be a royal pain in the neck to a government.
I've heard military vets who were serving in Somalia and Mogadishu ("Blackhawk down" incident) say an armed citizenry is harder for an army to deal with than another standing army.
The idea of armed resistance isn't silly or foolish --- but it also is definatly not a "lock-cinch" or easy either. In many ways the Founders who had to fight the Red coats in the Revolutionary War got lucky. Had Britain not been involved in the Thirty Years War with France, and they had not received help from Hessian and France, England might have won. There was atleast one pivotal point during the war where the British might have turned the matter to their advantage
through the action of just one man.
So even one man can change a historic outcome?
Yes. Certainly not anything a resistance force ought to count on if they want to prevail, certainly!!!!
Decent and sane people who believe in a Diety or atleast some basic goodness in men should pray we can maintain our freedoms and even regain what has been lost peacefully, through our vote at the ballot box, and choosing wise leaders to take decisions in the legislative offices of our country. That is still my hope. It's thin .... but not gone.