Or, we can ponder another take on this timeless classic, which Congressman Dopey also hopes we forgot, embodied in one of my favorite taglines:
The only purpose of a pistol is to fight yourr way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.
Whenever a liberal tells me it is naive to think small arms can defeat heavy weapons (i.e. modern US Army) I remind them about Ethan Allen. In 1775, the siege of Boston by the incredibly powerful British Army was broken, in part, by US artillerymen using heavy weapons (cannons) that Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, using only muskets, liberated from the English at Fort Ticonderoga.