According to Lebanese Shiite journalist and political commentator Nadim Koteich, Hezbollah, in its latest speech, essentially admitted that weapons are not for defending the country or deterring its enemies. Weapons are for defending itself.
The fact that he is not willing to discuss handing over his weapons and disarming them at all is essentially an admission that he is not part of Lebanon.
Of course, there are costs to this, which Hezbollah is already paying (targeted assassinations of his people by Israel, for example, and other costs, economic and political), but it is his. If he feels comfortable with this? Good luck to him.
If this statement had come from a member of the "Lebanese Forces" or a member of "Al-Kataab", it would not have surprised anyone, because politicians from the national right in Lebanon say these sentences all the time.