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Originally Posted by LUVMBDiesels
Since this has turned into another US Army Vs Citizens thread I will put in my two pennies... Sure one Big @ssed dud with a rife is not going to stand up to a tank. However, millions of Gun Nuts standing together will bring down anything. Look at the Chinese during the Korean War. A bunch of half trained bolt action rifle toting peasants went after the best trained and best equipped army in the world and beat it to a draw. Now take this same army, cut it in half as units and individual soldiers desert to help the armed citizens defend their rights and see what happens...
I hope it never happens, but I think that the Army would not be able to crush an armed insurection if it was national in scope. The only reason the Union won the Civil War was that there was a safe power base up North to draw men and materials from...
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They better not stand together as a few bombing runs will make minced meat out of them. I still don't buy this scenario. Iraq has clearly shown that guns are not very effective against a modern army. Road side bombs, suicide bombs and RPG's are a lot more effective, and none of those are made legal by the 2nd amendment. Iraq has also shown that an insurgency can relatively easily be bought off and split up. Now if the insurrection is truly national in scope, then the violent way may not even be the best way or necessary, and it can even be counterproductive. It's a lot harder for the military to gun down an unarmed opposition than one that is shooting at them.
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