Yes, we have street fights / protests between "soldiers" and pedestrians. Each equipped with their standard tools - lopsided as they may be. The question becomes more of a matter of context for a modern battle.
What is a modern knight and what is a modern peasant in 2020 and also, what locale?
(We could also use a booklist for this discussion - I keep bringing back scenes from Pillars of the Earth)
You can't own a knife in many countries without a license let alone a gun. It's all tracked. There are targeted missiles, drones, autonomous guns, surveillance, radar, bombs, tear gas, tasers, tanks, bullet and knife proof clothing, exoskeleton, etc available to the knights. Knights are many times more organized than they have ever been in history.
Recent incident in Nigeria where military massacred the protestors: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54630592
How do you protect yourself as a peasant against the Knights?
What kind of bullshit propaganda is that? There isn't a single country in the world that requires a license to "own a knife".
> let alone a gun. It's all tracked. There are targeted missiles, drones, autonomous guns, surveillance, radar, bombs, tear gas, tasers, tanks, bullet and knife proof clothing, exoskeleton, etc available to the knights.
However, there's a lots of things relatively freely available to peasants that can be turned into a bomb capable of killing any knight who's not in a tank. And even a tank can have a bad time in a city full of hostile peasants.
> Knights are many times more organized than they have ever been in history.
This is a the big one. Organization really matters to make the technological advantage count. And it ivolves knowing in what situations that advantage wouldn't work well, and avoiding them.
^ can't see anything other than an age restriction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_legislation#Spain
^ mentions: "Civilians are prohibited from possessing knives, machetes, and other bladed weapons officially issued to the police, military, and other official authorities without a special license"
Otherwise there are laws wrt possession of certain "weapon" knifes, and carrying knifes in public; but not mere possession of ordinary knifes. It's also not clear to me it's illegal to own "weapon" knifes kept at home.
"A scrimmage in a Border Station- A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride! "
You'd just change "ten-rupee jezail" to a second hand AK
And plenty of "third" world civilians have guns