Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter...
by snerbles on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:01AM
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> It doesn't matter what you own, the government will win every time. You are guaranteed to lose.
You're thinking at the individual level. Of course the state is going to have far more firepower than anything an individual can muster.
Think in terms of asymmetrical warfare.
Why is the U.S. still in Afghanistan? Why did OIF go from a three-week invasion to over a decade of grueling counterinsurgency operations? Surely those scrappy little resistance fighters couldn't stand up to our might...they die in droves, yet they persist.
You're thinking at the individual level. Of course the state is going to have far more firepower than anything an individual can muster.
Think in terms of asymmetrical warfare.
Why is the U.S. still in Afghanistan? Why did OIF go from a three-week invasion to over a decade of grueling counterinsurgency operations? Surely those scrappy little resistance fighters couldn't stand up to our might...they die in droves, yet they persist.