And China has also drones and an organized military. A military face to face with a nation state is always a losing bet. Which is why there are guerilla tactics

And China has also drones and an organized military. A military face to face with a nation state is always a losing bet. Which is why there are guerilla tactics but you can't expect a whole population to adopt guerilla warfare, there's not enough room in the jungle. What works is to make the economic cost of repression very costly with massive strikes and massive refusal to pay taxes, an organized military is very costly and when soldiers don't get paid they may disobey too. You also have to make the moral cost of being on the good side of the gun costly too then parts of the military may go into disobedience/mutiny. But this is generally taken into account by states and they will avoid sending batallions from a region in that region. On a different note, how do you justify having 50 guns for personal protection?