How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights

Re:How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights by samsolomon on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:29AM (#16472562)

> The US military is far too well-trained and -armed, and of course a hypothetical tyrannical US government would turn the military against its citizens if there was an armed uprising. And they would win so laughably easily.

I doubt it. The US failed in Vietnam and has been struggling in Afghanistan since 2001. Tanks and planes do not win wars. Small arms do.

EDIT: Dystopian follow-on thought. I wonder if this paradigm changes as drones improve? Would civilians have any defense? Perhaps history just repeats itself.

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Re:How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights by mr_spothawk on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:36AM (#16475062)

> drones

this is why it's tough (for me) to listen to the courts say "that doesn't mean a right to carry any weapon at any time for any reason".

a decent resistance will need drones.

fortunately they're cheap

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