Owen Sparks
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The Viet Nam war is a good case study of how a technicaly superior military can be demoralzed by gurilla tactics using only small arms and booby traps.
Knock, knock! The purpose of the Second Amendment is to create a "second force" of citizenry capable of resisting the power of the state, should the government try to enslave them.
Which means they need weapons capable of fighting the forces of the state on an equal footing.
And the paradoxical outcome of this is, if the people have the ability to successfully resist a tyranicall state, the state will be very reluctant to put the issue to the test.
In strategic terms, we call this "force in being." The presense of the power to successfully resist changes the dynamics of the situation and reduces the liklihood of bloodshed.
I take it you have never been in combat.
The Viet Nam war is a good case study of how a technicaly superior military can be demoralzed by gurilla tactics using only small arms and booby traps.
"The purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to give citizens the ability to fight foreign and domestic government forces if necessary, and prevail."
Zoogster, this is it. Short, sweet, and to the point. People today really don't like talking about resistance or rebellion against their government. But that is EXACTLY what the founders of this country did.
I.e. join militia unit, get your gun. Leave unit, and you can't even carry a knife.
Please give me a single example of citizens successfully overthrowing a regime by use of arms while the army stayed loyal to the given regime, in a relatively large and well developed country (in a banana republic or Africa, anything goes).
The United States, of course! How do you think we got shut of England? You might also throw in Texas. Consider Cyprus, Viet Nam, Yugoslavia and several similar cases.Please give me a single example of citizens successfully overthrowing a regime by use of arms while the army stayed loyal to the given regime, in a relatively large and well developed country (in a banana republic or Africa, anything goes).