A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills

Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by rdtsc on Friday November 07, 2014 @02:35AM (#8571535)

> Look at Syria and ISIS. What weapons are they using against the established government of the area? (Not making moral judgments here by saying "established", just using them as an example.) They are using small arms, not fighter jets.

In that case I want to demand legislation to have rocket launchers, AA-manpads, propane tank cannons, Shilkas (ZSU-23-4, they work very well for the ground, especially in urban areas, never know where that armored police trunk will roll by) and so on. Semiautomatics and pistols would be a joke there.

Is there any recent example of any of these millitia groups successfully opposing the US government and winning?

- Waco Seige?

- MOVE standoff, where Uncle Sam bombed a whole city block.

I wouldn't call those successes exactly.

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Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by pandaman on Friday November 07, 2014 @02:50AM (#8571569)

>Is there any recent example of any of these millitia groups >successfully opposing the US government and winning?

Afghanistan. Not just the American government, the USSR had to withdraw from there as well just about 20 years before.

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Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by rdtsc on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:03AM (#8571600)

General posession of fire arms is illegal in Afghanistan. Do you know otherwise? I know Mexico and Guatemala I think have a right to bear arms in their Constitution.

Also, can't think it would have been legal during the Soviet occupation. Presumalby we should then ban the guns here as well if we are to follow the model then?

Or, if we don't then I want an ammendment to let me have Stinger missles. Pretty sure just semmiautmatics and pistols wasn't quite enough to shoot down military helicopters and blow up whole convoys between mountain passes.

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Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by pandaman on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:13AM (#8571630)

I am sorry, I have no clue about Afghani law. I just gave an example of militia, armed basically with rifles and improvised weapons, successfully defending against not one but two modern military forces.

Also, from the history of recent internal conflicts (e.g Ukraine) a militia fighting its own government can obtain and use tanks and artillery quite easily as there are plenty of people on the both sides who are trained to use such equipment.

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