Gun Control

[CapnAwesome]

Pretty rehashed points, but I'm going to specifically respond to #3

3. The government has weapons far beyond what any citizen can access legally. They also have trained forces who have killed and will kill again. Using your little AR 15 to stop a cruise missile aimed towards your head is completely futile.

I assume this is in response to people who say they need guns in case they have to fight the government. While I think there are flaws in that argument I also think that obviously an armed populace could overthrow the government, regardless of whether or not they have cruise missiles and tanks. People who say this need to think a little. The Afghans are only men with guns, and they've successfully fought the most powerful militaries in the world in the last 100 years. They are far less numerous and have less guns than Americans. The actual number of combat troops that the US has is pitifully low. Something along the lines of a few hundred thousand. Compare that to 100 million armed Americans and it doesn't matter how many cruise missiles they have, the US population could easily defeat the US military. I even suspect that an unarmed populace could probably overthrow the government if they had to, just given the numbers. So while I do understand many arguments for gun control, I find this particular one to be based on a false assumption.