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:	post by ShadowSD at 2012-12-21 18:53:25

Never said "why didn't they shoot them in the leg" once, not sure where you're getting that. Leg's damn hard to hit. Aside from that, lots of credit to you for actually addressing my question.

Interesting point about nukes (although it does kind of go in the face of not letting the government be better armed than us - an argument that says trust them for historical reasons). One wonders, if government truly became tyrannical though, what still stops them from using some sort of weapon of mass destruction, perhaps chemical or biological if you don't believe nuclear? Syria's Assad nearly used chemical weapons on his own people several weeks ago, and only pulled back under threat of massive retaliation from other countries; if the US government became tyrannical, it's hard to see any other nations being in a position to have the kind of influence to stop that kind of attack. I find it hard to wager everything that a tyranny powerful enough to overcome over two centuries of democracy would be filled examples of great sympathy; trying to keep that faith in decency of the government alongside the inherent distrust of government at the same time just seems too much a contradiction to me. That's such a narrow if not completely implausible intersection of possibilities.

Interesting point about machine guns, although I wonder if machine guns are so poor for suburban combat why they were so popular with organized crime and why anyone bothered banning them in suburban streets. Would be interested in your thoughts on this.

I also wonder how a militia would overcome government's vast intelligence capabilities, classified weapons technology of which we are not even aware, and the number of trained armed services personnel in terms of how well-trained and how many well-trained soldiers there are, something which has really changed in recent decades. I'm still combing through Boozegod's links that were provided trying to find a case for that being realistic. Anyone has a direct link to this argument anywhere, I'd like to read it.

A couple of my closest friends who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars I'm going to be seeing over the next few days; one was in the Army, the other the Army Reserves, I'm interested to hear their opinions on this. I wonder if they think a militia could resist the US military and intelligence as it stands today.

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