guns

Yep

i take your point but there's a ticking clock on gasoline man and one could probably pour gasoline on most suburban or worse homes without neighbors being able to tell what's going on until the fire is already burning.

It's a bit of a fantasy for leftists to have guns - if there were ever a leftward surge across the US (lol), that's when you'd suddenly see how quickly the government can enact stringent gun controls.
The main reason why civilian-owned guns are so widespread is because said civilians are indoctrinated rubes who pose no real threat to capital; that, and so the arms industry has an additional revenue stream - one they'd give up if people were using their guns to form armed soviets

I mean your hypothetical implies it's three of you versus one fascist, in which case the tool has fuck all to do with it (unless the fascist has a gun!)

If you can cultivate these numerical advantages, great. Otherwise you should use whatever technological advantages you can get to even the scales and come out alive. Guns can be pretty good at that.