It takes talent, but it takes luck as well. Most can't opt out, or don't know how. That is a lesson for our children. It is one that some of mine have learned. That wasn't quite yeomanry, but it was close.
Property is now safe only if guarded.
With guns and hirelings. We have sown the wind, and we sow it now. And soon no one will OWN anything. The teachers were all women with cars and unlikely to have or need a shotgun in school but no one doubted that a farmer's wife knew how to use one. Patrick Henry made it clear that this included military weapons in the hands of the ordinary citizens.