Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
If they reject your authority, by use of arms, they are "fair game" - and not "your" population. It's been done successfully, and it works.
Are you suggesting that all citizens, everywhere, have an absolute obligation to submit to authority at all times, no matter how capricious and abusive that authority may be?

If people are rejecting authority through the use of arms, they probably have some reason for doing so: it's not the sort of thing one does casually or on a whim. Isn't it at least worth looking into the possibility of removing that reason, thereby resolving the conflict without the need to declare anyone fair game?