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In 2011 13.7 million people, 6% of the U.S. population 16 years old and older, went hunting. Hunters in the U.S. spent an average of 21 days pursuing wild game.
13.7 MILLION armed folks.........plus an estimated 80 million gun owners in the USA today. Consider you're a commie pinko who would just love to overrun our beloved country.......you've launched a nuke to knock out our electrical grid and now you would like to march in and just take over. Now picture going door to door across the land with a 12 gauge or a 30-06 greeting you all over.......forget the deep South for starters, and the upper Midwest hunters next. Kruschev in the cold war and the Emperor of Japan all took this into consideration in WW2 for real.We are unique in all the world, when somebody wants to come and kick your teeth in you will want to be hugging any NRA shooter you can find............
In 2011 13.7 million people, 6% of the U.S. population 16 years old and older, went hunting. Hunters in the U.S. spent an average of 21 days pursuing wild game.
13.7 MILLION armed folks.........plus an estimated 80 million gun owners in the USA today. Consider you're a commie pinko who would just love to overrun our beloved country.......you've launched a nuke to knock out our electrical grid and now you would like to march in and just take over. Now picture going door to door across the land with a 12 gauge or a 30-06 greeting you all over.......forget the deep South for starters, and the upper Midwest hunters next. Kruschev in the cold war and the Emperor of Japan all took this into consideration in WW2 for real.
We are unique in all the world, when somebody wants to come and kick your teeth in you will want to be hugging any NRA shooter you can find............
OK, so Vietnam is the example. Here's what didn't work: Random individuals with pluck and handguns and little else.
What did work was, again, organization - because that's what an army is.
The VC/NVA operated a sophisticated supply and logistics system - primitive methods (bicycles, even), but superbly used. There was a chain of command, equipment was rapidly standardized and the soldiers in the field were trained to operate on what Westerners would consider a minimum of supplies. More advanced weaponry was scarce, but applied in a professional manner - if they'd only had AK-47s, they'd have lost the conflict.
Having a gun and the ability to shoot it does not a soldier make. Having 10 guys with a gun and an ability to shoot it doesn't make a squad, either. Firearms proficiency is but a small part of basic training and forms perhaps 5% of the skillset necessary for a competent infantry private. Saying - as the OP does - that lots of people with guns constitute an army is a complete misunderstanding of what an army is and why it's an effective fighting machine.
There will be no lines in the next one but one static is military. Military won't fight military.
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