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Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong ... by csomar on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:11AM (#21126182)
> if the US President went in to full dictator mode and had the support of the military, do you really think a militia of armed citizens would be anything but gnats against the windshield of the United States Armed Forces?

You don't really need militias. If a majority of the people oppose the dictator and the military man are from these families then your coup is going to fail. That's why dictatorships with strong oppositions try to lure a portion of their population against another portion or hire an army from another country.

In a nutshell, the current US army is not going to attack their fellow citizens anytime soon for the eyes of a dictator.

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Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:14PM (#21127127)
> You don't really need militias. If a majority of the people oppose the dictator and the military man are from these families then your coup is going to fail.

That's the real (failed) purpose of the second amendment, to prevent the use of a professional armed force for internal and/or external security, with it's invariable separate subculture, so that the views of the masses of the people and those of the armed forces would not be distinct.

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