take up arms

But that doesn't mean we should take up arms against them.

Many locals have voluntarily taken up arms - some stolen from armed forces, some country-made - to protect their villages from intruders.

Twenty years ago, in this same part of the Philippines, communist insurgents took up arms against an earlier generation of power plants that had displaced them.

But, three years after the agreement was signed, he appeared in a video with other former Farc leaders calling on his followers to take up arms again.

Newton and Seale based their politics on teachings from Malcolm X, socialist and communist ideology and championed the self-determination and defense of Black people by taking up arms.