When, during George Washington's administration, some folks decided the federal government's whiskey tax was tyranny, they took up arms. Didn't work. Washington nipped that idea in the bud by personally leading an army to put down the "Whiskey Rebellion".
Those "Proud Boys" of the 1790s could have organized a political movement to change the law. That's what you do in a republic when you disagree with what your elected representatives do. Take up arms against our republic and you will either end up -- and rightfully so -- in jail or a coffin.
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