That supplying weapons does help save civilian lives is a non-sequitur for me. Technically, if you only care about civilian lives, you would immediately surrend

That supplying weapons does help save civilian lives is a non-sequitur for me. Technically, if you only care about civilian lives, you would immediately surrender. But as to your point, yes - I also think this is mostly virtue signalling - you'd need to lock the columns of the government's power out, i.e. specifically target any members of police/government institutions/military (Edit: as private persons, not only at their workplace). Edit2: Also, specifically targeting only them has a much larger effect than blanket-banning everyone. But I guess it's technically unfeasible without resorting to nation state levels of intelligence resources.