Yes, it'd be difficult. I have some faith that once things escalate far enough the people wielding the weapons are unwilling to murder their countrymen en masse.

Luigi Mangione has shown that all it takes is one person in the right time and place to remove some evil from the world.

It needs to happen, at minimum, before drones can reliably maintain themselves and kill dissidents in the street. At that point even if the human police and soldiers become disloyal it'll be too late; a society of two types of people, the one guy with access to issue prompts, and everyone else.