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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington, speech of Jan. 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, Jan. 14, 1790.
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We don't have a $500 billion budget. I might have the technical expertise to build weapons of mass detruction, but the funding and access to things like plutonium limits my ability to make war. The greatest defence against an army is the sympathy of that army. If it were to come to civil war; that is the military against the civilians, our greatest defence would be the soldiers have civilian friends and family that could be hurt of killed as a direct result of their action. If I were in the military and I was given an order to attack Phoenix or Dover, I'd say hell no.