I prefer to think of the brave souls in the Warsaw Ghetto who had but a few guns and held off the Nazi mechanized army for weeks. Imagine what a better armed and fed population would do.
No, the gun grabbing left would love to instill fear, but as long as people have their guns, the government will have great fear of the public. As it should be.
We have found out to our dismay that in pissant countries like Iraq, even the major powers get tired of being picked off by an angry population.
AND technologically advanced populace! Somebody mentioned the possiblility that the gov't would make use of drones & drone strikes. I'm sure that they would. But what happens to those drones when they get jammed or the data-link gets hacked? This is beyond the capability of the Taliban or the typical Iraqi, but not a computer-savvy patriot.