I agree with you for the most part, but despite being armed, we're still mostly complacent, and roughly half of America would gladly give up their right to bear arms. Plus the ATF has slowly been chipping away at the 2nd amendment, and the "armed" subset of our population will be left with pea shooters if they get their way

And as much as I'd love to say that the military would side with the citizenry, history is full of people who would commit atrocities against their own because they were "just following orders"