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Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade by rapind on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:29AM (#5984715)
Let me preface this by stating I'm not a big fan of guns personally, but let's modify that question a bit to say: "What would you do in their place if faced with an angry and ridiculously armed populous?"... well I'd probably do my best to stay off their radar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c...

Sometimes I think the powers that be are poking an enormous sleeping dog with a stick just for giggles.

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Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade by xradionut on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:40AM (#5984788)
Personal firearms are worthless against NBC weapons. And I wouldn't be surprised to know genetic weapons are being developed...
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Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade by shabble on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:24PM (#5986099)
Not in an insurgency, low-intensity warfare sort of way. Not unless you can somehow make them very targeted.

"We had to destroy the [village] in order to save it" doesn't really apply if you consider, say, New York City.

As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 (and, of course, successful terrorist acts over the last decade) demonstrated, low tech is still Good Enough for a lot of purposes.

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Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade by rapind on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:21PM (#5988822)
Exactly. It's guerilla warfare. The military would be next to useless in a situation like that. Not to mention morale issues.
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Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade by GVIrish on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:07PM (#5985952)
Yes, but that's assuming there are people in the government with the will to deploy those weapons against the public. At best they'd only achieve pyrrhic victory.
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Re:Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade by Dewie on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:58AM (#5985398)
It's funny that the US has twice the amount of guns per capita compared to Switzerland, when Switzerland is the country that demands that all conscpripts in their militia keep a gun at their home.
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