Ask the Vietnamese how guns saved them from the American imperialism .
"Right to buy weapon is right to be free" A.E. van Vogt.
"Right to buy weapon is right to be free" A.E. van Vogt.
The weapons shop was written in 1942, that statement may have been true back then. I'm also not sure the Vietnam war was fought with civilian purchased firearms and munitions... there may have been a state actor on the other side of that one.
Is this genuinely something you believe to be a benefit of owning and purchasing firearms in modern day America? I'm not trying to change your mind, I just want to know if that's really what you believe.
Last I checked the US military is in the process of concluding a 20yr war by negotiating a peace deal with a bunch of poor subsistence farmers who's insurrection is basically self funded and who have no ability to harm the supply lines or funding sources of the military. The fathers and grandfathers of these farmers had the same experience with the USSR.
Unless you are willing to destroy everything and kill everyone (an option armies and police forces operating domestically do not have) you cannot win against an enemy who's goal is simply to not be subjugated and who has more local support than you (they don't need much, just more than you).
This is some wild revisionism. There have been all kinds of state actors backing the Afghan insurgencies, in the US occupation as well as the Soviet occupation.
A low level proxy war is exactly what it is, though. The Taliban are funded by Pakistan, who doesn't want an assertive, nationalist neighbor, Saudi Arabia[1], who wants to enflame sunni/shia strife to harass Iran, and Russia, who wants to poke a finger in the eye of the US. They can't give more than light arms to the insurgents without it being a naked attack on the US, so rifles, mortars, IED supplies and the occasional RPG are what they get.
To get back to the overarching point though, armed revolt driven by light arms in the US would not be some glorious revolution that would result in more freedom for everyone. It'd likely be a lot of proxy warfare and nonstop terrorism on our soil.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/asia/saudi-arabia-a...
And ask the Sioux how guns didn't save them.