Plenty of civilians have drones. That's not the point. Governments can be subsumed, overthrown, feckless, rapacious, etc. to the point of becoming inexpugnable when its citizens are unarmed. Governments are held accountable peacefully, and if not, then through armed revolution. But so long as the fear of an armed revolution is highly possible, governments are more likely to respond to peaceful change in government. There are numerous examples available in the past and in recent decades from around the world where despots controlling an unarmed or weakly armed citizenry wreaked havoc on that citizenry. There are also examples of governments that were overthrown because their citizenry threatened significant violence to bring about change and had the means to do so. Do you get it CE?