Reply #184: If it cracks you up, I can only suppose you're unclear on the concept

[Mairead]

In 1960 I briefly worked with someone who'd been in the '56 uprising in Hungary. All they had against Soviet tanks and infantry were cobblestones, antique (pre-WW1) single-shot rifles, and Molotov cocktails. He was very clear about his belief that it would have made an enormous, perhaps crucial diffference to have had even semi-auto rifles and pistols widely available.

Much the same as the Lebanese against the IDF invader/occupiers (Uri Avnery wrote about it) and the Iraqis against the USUK (pron. 'you suck') invader/occupiers today: what the Arabs had/have mightn't be much, but it's better and more effective than what the poor Hungarians had.