You're regurgitating the pro-gun fantasy of a bunch of pea shooter firearms resisting "the gubberment". If there are firearms, the government has bigger firear

You're regurgitating the pro-gun fantasy of a bunch of pea shooter firearms resisting "the gubberment". If there are firearms, the government has bigger firearms. Artillery, explosives, tanks/cavalry, air power. At least medieval peasantry required raising, transporting an army, and sometimes losing on the battlefield. Modern militaries would just dispatch a cruise missile or worse, 100% success. Modern peasantry doesn't get slaughtered by modern armies in the same manner because modern armies and technology need modern society and values to sustain a large enough civilization to produce those products of war. Modern restraint on slaughter enables guerilla warfare to be effective, not modern technology or some fundamental weakness of modern militaries.