The founding fathers tried all avenues of attaining freedom for years and years before the revolution. We have not tried all avenues yet, actually very few of them.
How much easier would it be to have a convention of states and write into the constitution huge limitations of power of the feds? Would be a h*ll of a lot easier than taking on the United States Armed Forces!
Remember all those videos from Iraq of the smart weapons blasting to h*ll a bunch Iragis? You don’t think they would use them on us? Just sayin....