07-03-2018, 08:57 AM
(07-03-2018, 08:40 AM)Au165 Wrote: I have always laughed at the idea of any civil war at this point. It is actually why I think the 2nd amendment is funny at this point as the founding fathers could never have foreseen what our government and military would become and no well regulated militia today would do anything about it. I'm sure people are going to chime in with various anecdotes about determination, patriotism, etc , but the reality is at best they'd be a nuisance and in reality all the leaders would be taken out by predator drones before it ever got much steam.
Not commenting on the idea of a civil war or on the idiocy of Alex Jones, but I see this argument made by people all the time and it could not be more erroneous. A human with a rifle is still the best weapon system on the planet. If you doubt this then kindly explain how the Taliban still exists without a single helicopter or tank? How did the Viet Cong stand up to the best military in the world? Unless a military is willing to engage in wholesale slaughter, i.e. purging an area of human life, there is no way to account for partisans within the population. Most military hardware is designed to deal with the armies of other nations. But conquering and holding territory is solely the purview of the infantry and until infantry have body armor impervious to small arms then they are on close to equal footing to a civilian with a gun, especially a well trained one.
Trust me, any military historian would scoff at the idea that a modern military has nothing to fear from an armed populace.
