It will be called a mob war and portrayed as two criminal factions fighting each other. Govt will side with the drug dealers (easier to control) and crack down on the leadership. No dime will be spared and you bet even legislation will pass with billions to fight it (embezzlement and laundering being plus sides).
There is no resistance and revolution only makes the strong stronger. The discrepancy of power in the US is the same as any other country; civs have rifles in the nation with the strongest military superpower of the world; civs are disarmed in Europe where their military is almost obsolete.
The gubmit gets very upset if citizens on their own start doing the job the government is deliberately not doing.
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