Militias, last line of defense etc. and the civil war.

[Warren Stupidity]

One of the canons of Rkba absolutism is that gun rights are "the last defense against tyranny". The idea is that the good citizens can form citizen militias using their individual weapons to arm those militias, and with a bit of regulation in the form of marching, paint ball, beer, and plunking at targets, be ready to take on The Feds Gone Wild.

This is pretty much what happened in 1861. The results were the bloodiest war in our history by far, and the only time large areas of our nation were subject to the destructive forces of modern warfare, and this was just at the beginning of the industrial revolution, before the technology of warfare took several order of magnitude leaps on the way to Hiroshima.

The other interesting fact about the militia fueled uprising of 1861 was that it was not a "defense of liberty", unless one squints and ignores the fact that it was defense of a plantation economy that kept half the population of the region in slavery and benefited only a tiny fraction of the remaining "free" citizens. This uprising was profoundly reactionary.

The most likely scenario for a modern militia based uprising, and it ain't very likely, would once again be a defense of tyranny rather than freedom. The good news is that its duration would be measured in days not years.