They would probably laugh at you. The average peasant was not allowed to own weapons, there would never be a way to determine if a peasant had any innate ability with weapons. Oddly enough Toyotomi Hideyoshi who implemented this policy that imposed rigid class structure was himself a peasant who rose to nearly rule Japan.

"Samurai" is a bit misleading as a category of people because there was huge socio-economic variations within the samurai status group. Do you mean the Shogun and 250-odd daimyo? Well, they probably would say no, let's keep the status quo. Do you mean the upper samurai who monopolized all the bureaucratic offices of government? Ehh, probably agree to keep things the way they were but personal ties with their daimyo lords were already fraying. The Tokugawa shoguns had a long memory of the turmoil and flux of the Warring States Period and were determined to prevent Japan from returning to that situation by literally "freezing" everyone in their place.

Of course this is silly and impossible to do. And Tokugawa society changed and evolved over 200 years. Like a lot. Until the reality no longer matched the ideal - if it ever did.

So let's go to the vast majority of samurai, who were poor, unemployed or underemployed, and looked on with envy and bewilderment as merchants and farmers, supposedly subordinate to warriors, become rich, successful, prosperous. While samurai became frustrated, wasted, restless. Not to say that being a samurai wasn't a big status symbol. But by the mid19th century, many samurai were quite eager to dump the old system for something new.

Then you get to the Meiji Restoration and Meiji Period, but that's a whole different story.