Yeah, he did.
Ah. You mean like the Founders.
Violence can solve quite a few problems. It is always a solution that can be applied to a tyrannical government as well. The difference between patriot and what you call a nut job is often only a matter of degree.
Are the founding fathers nut jobs, the Union Army ? The veterans of the World Wars ?
Every single one of them had a philosophy that demanded violence at times rather than submission to tyranny.