RE: My view regarding guns in the USA as a foreigner.
March 12, 2018 at 9:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2018 at 10:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@Wyrd
It works in asymmetric engagements as well. You learn the process response and times. You engineer a situation which brings in critical personnel...and -then- you see the light. No one ever "fights". The medics get blasted, the bomb squad gets hit. The column of cooks and accountants playing infantry get t-d up. You respond to phantom calls and the cell tower behind you gets felled like a tree while you're looking somewhere else. Potholes appear in the roads, bridges disappear, the water mains keep getting cut and you can't keep the power on in a city block with any confidence.
The idea that armed citizens can curb stomp a conventional force is well attested to in history and the present..it's the militia concept fighting conventional battles against a legitimate conventional army that's -always- been absurd. It was absurd when they wrote the second amendment, lol. The authors were being just a tad bit duplicitous when they wrote it, and it had more to do with politics and being dead broke than any military reality.
It works in asymmetric engagements as well. You learn the process response and times. You engineer a situation which brings in critical personnel...and -then- you see the light. No one ever "fights". The medics get blasted, the bomb squad gets hit. The column of cooks and accountants playing infantry get t-d up. You respond to phantom calls and the cell tower behind you gets felled like a tree while you're looking somewhere else. Potholes appear in the roads, bridges disappear, the water mains keep getting cut and you can't keep the power on in a city block with any confidence.
The idea that armed citizens can curb stomp a conventional force is well attested to in history and the present..it's the militia concept fighting conventional battles against a legitimate conventional army that's -always- been absurd. It was absurd when they wrote the second amendment, lol. The authors were being just a tad bit duplicitous when they wrote it, and it had more to do with politics and being dead broke than any military reality.
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