You miss the point. Tyrannical governments want to control people. Using chemical weapons, nukes, etc is meant to destroy, not control. There are very few places in America where Chinese, or even Australian, style lockdowns ever could have happened. It’s hard to get police to enforce tyrannical demands that make people desperate when there is a good chance they’ll come across someone with nothing else to lose willing to take them out.

It’s not about winning a war against our elected government, it’s about controlling the amount of tyranny they could ever realistically enforce.