Yes, it's a weapon, but the effectiveness of said weapon depends on what its target is. You don't bring a knife to a gunfight and expect to come out alive.
They also mistake defiance and disrespect as courage. Worst of all, they mistake revenge, murder and even terrorism as self-defense, like all the people who see Stephen King's first title character as a hero even though she murdered dozens of people who had nothing to do with rigging the election and tipping the bucket of blood.
