Actually Vietnam is a great example of people winning with a dearth of any real military equipment larger than personal weapons because they were willing to fight and die in massive numbers to get independence.  And despite losing every single battle they still won the war. Actually its not far from the US Revolution in that the US colonies lost nearly every battle and stand up encounter in the war yet were still successful.  And while the 'armed citizenry did not stop the British from burning Washington to the ground (in a separate war I might add) even Napoleons troops that were considered the class of the world at the time didn't fare particularly well against the unit involved in that action. 

Regardless a government cannot conduct purges like occurred in China, Cuba, Russia, Germany etc when you have an armed populace. Thanks for playing though at least you have a minimum of exposure to history even if you have drawn terrible conclusions from that exposure. Its a start.