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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
Shakran, you're underestimating the effectiveness of guerella warfare. It's what those who don't have the firepower to match their enemy toe-to-toe will inevitably resort to. They resort to that because it works. Fighting an assymetrical war takes away the firepower advantage your enemy posesses.
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No I'm not. Guerella warfare works only in cases where the "tyrannical" government isn't as tyrannical as you'd like to believe. Guerellas in LA? Nuke the city. Poof, no more resistance.
My entire point is that 1) this right to bear arms crap is NOT supported in the constitution unless you're in a well-regulated militia, and a bunch of jackholes stockpiling shotguns is not well-regulated. 2) If the government REALLY got tyrannical and wanted to abuse their power, those shotguns won't stop them and 3) the government is ALREADY abusing their power, flagrantly, and no one's shooting at it.
The whole argument that this well regulated militia of freedom-loving dksuddeth clones is ready to stop the big bad government is total bullshit because they're not doing what they claim they're ready to do.
What this really boils down to is that they want their guns, dammit, and they'll make up any excuse for being able to have them. Slowly but surely those excuses are disappearing. No one needs to hunt for food anymore, we aren't at war with the Indians anymore, the days of Billy the Kid are long gone, and we certainly don't need a citizen's auxilliary militia to fight off foreign invaders, because if they manage to get through the Armed Forces, a bunch of untrained landowners with rifles don't stand a chance.
The only thing left for them is to claim they're here to defend us against an abusive government. But they (ahem) have just shot themselves in the foot over that one, because they aren't doing anything to stop this abusive government that we're enduring right now.
Even if you discount the fact that a rebellion will NOT work, you cannot discount the fact that the rebellion they claim to be preparing for is not happening despite the fact that the government is, according to them, doing things that require that rebellion.
As for Afghanistan and Iraq, Cynthetiq, when an outside country funds and arms the rebels/insurgents, the equation changes. What country out there is going to fund and arm dksuddeth's rebellion? To do so risks total war with a military that has the capability of wiping out all life on the planet. Dksuddeth's rebellion, if they ever decide to actually stage it, will be entirely on its own.