Firstly... the principle may have made sense in the 1700s, but it seems totally out of touch with modern reality. You really think, if it came to it, you would be able to bring down the technical might of the US army? You're going to use rifles on their tanks and jets?
This sounds like Hitler dropping pamphlets on France saying that Nostradamus predicted they would fall, and so they surrendered without a fight.

Your above comment implies that just because the U.S. as a nation has grown so powerful, there is no point in trying to protect our constitutional rights by force. It couldn't work anyway.

The constitution says somewhere that under certain conditions, we not only have the right to overthrow the government, but it is the people's obligation to do so. Whether or not I can own a tank, I know I can't fight the war machine with peaceful protest. Should it come down to it, we would need a gun; preferably not a revolver. We are well beyond that point.