You can think whatever you want, but I am more than sure that manipulating a crowd of armed people is much harder than doing it with an unarmed crowd.

If weapons are not used against civilians, policemen and soldiers who are acting within the law, then you cannot call those people idiots.

Each of us has the right to defend ourselves and our family, and if the authorities do not hear people protesting without weapons, then they have not given a damn about people's opinions. That's why people took up arms.