All Hail the Second Amendment

[The Grand Nudger]

An unarmed society is easily bullied you know. Not that really matters considering they have an air force and armor.

How'd that air force and armor work out in the middle east of late? It matters, lol. Honestly, I;d rather fight a godamned conventional soldier than a guerrilla. The worst is when professional soldiers use guerrilla tactics, pretty much a recipe for producing misery amongst your enemy. Constantly being ambushed, then chasing shadows until you're exhausted, only to give up....and then get hit again, tired, on the way back to your HQ. The quality of your gear and state of mind essentially circling the drain the more effective their operations are. An armed public is pretty much the ultimate deterrent against political tyranny. That's not to say that the armed populace always wins out, of course. Sometimes governments approach the insurgents with a sledgehammer, compliance at any cost.

All the fancy hardware helps you to -maintain- some measure of control...once you have it. It's not always helpful in the getting -of it-. Nor can it protect you against the cunning and ingenuity of human beings. A 22lr is a fantastic weapon if you find yourself fighting well armed soldiers on your home soil (if that home soil is the US of A). But, ultimately, you'd want something bigger to be able to go toe to toe in a limited way, or increase the destructive capability of your actions. Couldn't go too exotic, because the ammo needs to be readily available (and you can expect the other guy to attempt to control the supply). Ultimately, you might just bomb a cp and take the soldiers guns - but you're gonna need some guns one way or another.

I know, I know, some people say we don't need to worry about that anymore, but cops with tanks and ar's say otherwise. Some people also say that people are too soft to go revolutionary - and yet we see riots and looting. The field doesn't seem to have changed so much, in my estimation - as some would imply when they talk about how soft we are, or how hard our military gear is (and thus insurmountable either actually or effectively). Remember that time when the english crown thought that the american people weren't going to put up much of a fight, and that they lacked the gear necessary to do so (especially relative to their own) anyway? How'd that turn out?

Now, our ideas about military composition have changed alot. We don;t have "militias" defending their constituent areas anymore (in fact, thats frowned upon in a big point a gun at your face and say "FBI, lay down your weapon and get on your knees with your hands behind your head" sort of way). So maybe the types of firearms available to us should change - but the very moment someone tries to take away my hunting rifle it's going to start to look like a good idea to use it for something -other than- hunting deer. Yes, ofc, my hunting rifle -could be- used - to great effect- for combat, crime, weirdness. It's a nice rifle. So restricting my access to, say, a SAW doesn;t actually prevent me (or even inconvenience me) from committing crimes or murdering people. Hell, it probably wouldn't make too much of a difference in the overall body count either. In the case of a kid though, that situation is probably different. Give him a machine gun and 200 rounds and he might get a few more people on accident than he would on purpose with a bolt action rifle. However, in my case (and the case of many rednecks and ex soldiers) the hunting rifle is something that we could employ almost unilaterally. There'd be no way to control our access to the ammo (many of us can actually manufacture it) - and it can be effectively leveraged to a range that surpasses most machine guns with less material input and more mobility/concealment. The redneck (read: insurgent) in the brush (read: concealed with homefield advantage) leveraging a weapon system that is common and easy to obtain (read: untraceable and therefore uncontrollable),who is practiced in it's employment (read: comes from a gun culture) is pretty much the stuff of soldiers nightmares. A whole country full of them might make a soldier honestly reassess his career decisions.