Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threats to national security

Re:Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threat... by euroclydon on Friday June 14, 2013 @07:04AM (#5879239)

I sometimes fret that a nation formed by a revolution, who's founding document even seems to imply that revolutions are periodically necessary, would so thoroughly protect itself from revolution. This database is a revolution-buzz-kill.

Then I get bummed that after the Newtown shooting all the politicians who wanted to enact tighter gun restrictions kept saying that you don't need an assault rifle to hunt. I don't see anything about hunting in the 2nd amendment. I always thought the second amendment was about preventing tyranny, in which case a fully automatic weapon would be very useful.

But, the second amendment is probably more about state organized militias in a time when the feds didn't maintain a standing army. I guess I'm going to have to give up this idle revolution fantasy. It would probably suck anyhow -- there's no way more people will be fed than are now, wealth would be distributed more equally, or due process would be better respected, after an armed revolution.

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Re:Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threat... by cma on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:41AM (#5879546)

Assault rifles have basically never been allowed. You are thinking of assault-style weapons, a recently made up term that basically refers to a costume a semi automatic rifle is wearing, along with high-capacity magazines.

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Re:Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threat... by trust-me on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:00AM (#5879388)

Let me tell you how useful an automatic weapon is against a swarm of drones: not useful at all. Those drones are very similar to the laptops and tablets we use everyday and can be mass produced in millions on the Pentagon/Occupation/etc. 1+ trillion budgets. PRISM and company will just supply the targets - leaders, current and potential, of an opposition.

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Re:Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threat... by jafaku on Friday June 14, 2013 @09:22AM (#5879732)

Don't those things need a (remote) pilote? How would drones without pilotes work against a revolution?

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Re:Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threat... by trust-me on Friday June 14, 2013 @09:51AM (#5879876)

With the huge R&D investments of DAPRA&Co they need fewer and fewer people to operate. It's not a problem to find a few dozens of loyal people ready to kill kids and whoever else tries to disobey the orders.

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