&gt; The right to bear arms is partly about the people having the same powers or greater, collectively, than the government.<p>This only works in the US and even there I have no illusions at all about the ability of a present day militia being able to fight off a trained army, it&#x27;s a pacifier for overgrown toddlers. The only people that have to fear from citizens with guns are other citizens (with or without guns), the military would have absolutely no problem whatsoever dispatching those if it was decided that their lives and the resulting PR fall-out are less important than whatever objectives they were given.<p>&gt; In the modern era it is information asymmetry that we should worry about.<p>Note that there are always provisions in the law to protect the lawmakers from having the laws applied to them.<p>&gt; How to prevent such a thing pragmatically is tricky.<p>I think it can&#x27;t be done unless you simply outlaw it wholesale and are prepared to follow up on it. And from a practical point of view this is now a rear-guard action, fall-back bit by bit and try to push back the point in time where we will have to conclude the battle was lost. This is not a problem that will simply go away, it has already gone way too far for that.