Ash
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"Americans are generally apathetic, lazy, fat, and too accustomed to technology and creature comforts."
Right now it might seem so. But that has been levied against Americans for more than a hundred years. Yet at D-Day it was proven otherwise. For me, it was proven otherwise after Katrina. New Orleans might have gone Mad Max, but south MS (you know, the area that actually took the brunt of the storm?) folks got to work. That isn't combat, but I saw few "fat and lazy" Americans. Yeah, saw fat Americans, but they were all working hard and getting things done. Americans have always done that.
I think the 2a is perfectly strong today. Yeah, we can't fight an F/A-18, but then the militia couldn't take on artillery in 1787. But all the massive arms and equipment are useful only if the government has the will to utterly level cities. They did that in my neck of the woods 150 years ago, but much has changed since then. Mortars, tanks, and the like only work when the will to employ them in cities exists. Yeah, it happened in China (I knew a guy who was at Tiennamen Square) and it could happen here, too. But a well-armed populace forced into a war-stance is formidable, and I know many people who are not weekend warriors, whose only camo is used for ducks and turkey, who would, and could, step up and do what was needed. It has always been thus here.
Any small arm is fair regarding the 2a. Select fire is technically in the scope of the amendment as it is generally carried by the individual soldier. That won't happen, of course, but that was the intent.
Right now it might seem so. But that has been levied against Americans for more than a hundred years. Yet at D-Day it was proven otherwise. For me, it was proven otherwise after Katrina. New Orleans might have gone Mad Max, but south MS (you know, the area that actually took the brunt of the storm?) folks got to work. That isn't combat, but I saw few "fat and lazy" Americans. Yeah, saw fat Americans, but they were all working hard and getting things done. Americans have always done that.
I think the 2a is perfectly strong today. Yeah, we can't fight an F/A-18, but then the militia couldn't take on artillery in 1787. But all the massive arms and equipment are useful only if the government has the will to utterly level cities. They did that in my neck of the woods 150 years ago, but much has changed since then. Mortars, tanks, and the like only work when the will to employ them in cities exists. Yeah, it happened in China (I knew a guy who was at Tiennamen Square) and it could happen here, too. But a well-armed populace forced into a war-stance is formidable, and I know many people who are not weekend warriors, whose only camo is used for ducks and turkey, who would, and could, step up and do what was needed. It has always been thus here.
Any small arm is fair regarding the 2a. Select fire is technically in the scope of the amendment as it is generally carried by the individual soldier. That won't happen, of course, but that was the intent.