[JetSpiegel]

> Twenty guys with rifles may not be able to take on an army base, but they can take on car dealerships and hardware stores and chemical plants and then drive off with their stuff.

Isn't this coming back to your point? If you are fighting an insurrection, and start acquiring resources by force, you are losing the will of the people. At some point, your insurrection is just thuggery, returning to the point that guns only benifit criminals.

> It makes it more dangerous for corrupt police to sneak around like criminals without announcing themselves or outright lynch people in the streets, because it leaves people more ability to defend themselves against petty local tyranny as well.

History shows the police murdering people in the street because they happen to have guns. But since they fire dozens of shots against sleeping targets, having guns for defence never helps, and gets you branded as cop killer.

> And the obsession with the AR-15 is wholly misplaced. It's used by some bad people because it's used by a lot of people in general. It's popular.

Completely agree, it's just an example. A gun is a gun.