Well, I leave for a few hours, and everyone is busy here.
1. I agree with Dave on the media issue, and I've felt that way for a long time. The media doesn't make villains out of these people, they make them martyrs, celebrities and anti-heroes. When a train hit a school bus near my house in Illinois, the media was all over the high school, paying students $10 to cry on camera. The local school administration and police told the news crews that they were no longer allowed near the school for reporting.
2. An armed militia will unlikely ever be able to take over or take back a government. Those sorts of changes require leaders and management. Disgruntled people only make noise. Even in the Civil War here, the soldiers were not the thinkers, only the labor sent out to follow the orders of those who had the real vision.
3. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hitler was originally VOTED into power, correct? He came along and restored hope to a dejected Germany. He also started out exploiting existing sentiment, like anti-Semitism, and fanned the flames of a willing public, to the tune of his own belief and design. The problem came after he got in the driver's seat, and decided to tell the country how it was going to be, and people weren't happy with that.