Re:The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C
by kryogen1c on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:24PM
(#23431106)
> Yes, because pop-guns do anything against trillions of dollars in armor plating and advanced weaponry.
of course it does. bombs or tanks dont help you hold a city - it is singly people with firearms to kill the other people with firearms.
its a different story if youre talking total war, but theres basically no scenario where american military would decimate american cities.
> This is such a mentally lazy platitude
interesting opinion considering all you have to do is look at the last two decades of failed intervention in the middle east.
EDIT: additionally, many places in the middle east were occupied against their will by the terrorist forces we were there to fight. thats not the same as a citizen militia resisting occupation
Re:The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C
by rm_-rf_ on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:37PM
(#23431327)
Right, the superior technology and advanced weaponry was what led the US to so quickly and decisively crush insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq using dusty old AK-47s and cheap improvised explosive devices.
Re:The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C
by kcb on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:55PM
(#23431596)
Now compare the casualties between the US and Afghanistan or Iraq.
Re:The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C
by drak0n1c on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:22PM
(#23432725)
In a civil-war scenario, that level of destruction would be suicide for a government's economic and international survival and cause mass military desertion/defection. That counts as deterrence.
This is such a mentally lazy platitude. All arming the population has done is incentivize them to use their arms against their fellow countrymen.