You either go all in or not at all. I'm not advocating one way or the other, but common sense tells ya that if a person puts them self up against the gubbamint, there are only two outcomes.
Folks may believe there are three, but not so. You either stand and fight or go to prison. The feds are not going to bow to anyone. The feds are not going to simply say, “oh, nice try boyz, lay down your weapons and get on back home”.
Not gonna happen. Civil disobedience is one thing, armed civil disobedience is quite another.
“Armed civil disobedience” is called rebellion, and the US government has harshly suppressed rebellion since 1786 (Shay’s Rebellion.)
The only groups whose ringleaders got away with armed rebellion were a few communists back in the 60s and 70s. But even most of them met violent ends unless they had deep connections with the ruling elite (e.g., Bill Ayer’s father was CEO of Commonwealth Edison.)