Quote:They'd probably call for their mothers the second some policemen in riot gear begin to bombard them with tear-gas canisters.
We aren't going to know the answer to that until the cops start using deadly force.
Remember that in France the king was forced to rely on Swiss mercenaries. The French Army was politically unreliable and eventually threw in with the revolutionaries. Serving French soldiers joined the attack on the Bastille. Without them, it would probably not have succeeded.