People need to communicate, organize, and exhibit a unified show of force. Rebelling individuals have no chance.
There are plenty agency folks around that will have no qualms about seizing arms.
If I remember right, that is exactly what happened at Ruby Ridge when more than a hundred people came to support Randy Weaver and his family. Nobody did anything while the law shot his son and wife. But they were there.
I think they got there after that happened. I believe Weaver credited Bo Gritz, the most decorated Special Forces soldier in Vietnam IIRC, with saving his life. I think that Wyoming attorney who eventually defended Randy was there too. It ended badly but could have been worse.
