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Does the United States have experience stretching back a millennium fighting foreign invaders? Are Americans skilled at living in rugged country and subsisting on very little? This country was still owned by Indians when people in Afghanistan were successfully battling foreign occupiers. Little has changed in Afghanistan since, and everything has changed in the U.S.
We will never win in Afghanistan, we cannot even define what victory is.
But Afghanistan is as far removed from the United States as any country in the world, so those comparisons are invalid.
Would you like to describe for us your amazing credentials as an expert in guerilla warfare. I have a feeling that it consists mainly of judicious use of camo and 5.11 clothing, and an in depth knowledge of Soldier of Fortune magazine and a dog eared copy of the Turner Diaries. Am I close?
What is the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
I can read and actually know history,I am lucky to have been educated elsewhere so aren't ignorant of history.
I have eight M-60 machine guns, a dozen AK-47s, an more pistols than I can count. Plenty of ammo for everything. I'm stilling hoping to buy a howitzer to place in my garage. I want to be ready when the liberal, commie government (or the anti-christ) comes to get me.
Ironically, one man with a single shot from Remington 700 chambered in .308 and fitted with decent scope standing 800 meters away can make your arsenal a moot issue, not to mention what a punctuation mark a single Predator can put on the point.
I own a few collectable rifles but you don't see me touting them around like some bratty kid who is cooler than everyone else who doesn't choose to have one. Have some grace.
After what we've seen in the world, only stupid people would question the wisdom of the Founding Fathers by giving us the 2nd Amendment. It's not without a cost to society, but with it we can rest assured the powers that be won't shoot us down at will... because we can shoot back.
Our government was initially designed to fragment and decentralize power for the freedom and benefit of all. Those in charge now have worked very diligently to do the opposite. Don't think for a second that they wouldn't like us to be just as helpless as the people of Syria or China are against their leaders.
Not really. I think the core purpose of the Second Amendment is completely useless today.
Back in the day when muskets and a cannon or two was all anyone had, the Second Amendment did provide a real counterbalance to potential government misuse of force. Today, modern governments have large professional military forces with advanced firearms, riot gear, tanks, helicopters, jets, chemical weapons, laser-guided missiles and nukes. The days when you could win a fight against them with a ragtag militia outfitted with a few semiautomatic (or even illegally tricked-out automatic) weapons are long gone. That said, it MAY help you in self defense against the occasional run-in with a criminal. I'm all for letting lawful people maintain their guns in a legal way, but let's not kid ourselves and pretend that your shotgun is a meaningful deterrent to government tyranny, because it just isn't. A lot has changed technologically since the 1770s.
The British had the finest military on earth at the time of the America Revolution....we beat them anyway.
The 2nd amendment will always be needed.
Don't forget....4 dead in Ohio.
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Did you ever think just how fortunate we are to have the 2nd Amendment?
