"Well Regulated Militia"

[Dill]

(08-06-2019, 08:44 AM)Au165 Wrote: Obviously, this came up in the other thread and I have seen it discussed often after shootings as a reason for why guns are such a necessity. My question is, do people actually think civilians with guns could stand any chance in overthrowing the U.S. government without gaining the backing of the U.S. military in a coup attempt? If you had the military then the need for your personal possession of said firearm would be moot in terms of rising up to fight tyranny.

When the constitution was written, it was obviously fresh in the founding fathers minds of what had to be done to get to where they were but we act as if they were all knowing. They had no way to know what the U.S. government would someday become and with it the insane weaponry they would posses. This was before the invention of long range artillery, flight, biological/chemical agents, nuclear weapons, drones, EMP's, etc. I often wonder, if they truly believed in the 2nd amendment, would they let the governments military become so powerful as a single entity like it is today?

In my mind the idea of the people in today's situation rising up is a delusion of grandeur fueled by nostalgia and bravado. The government could take down the internet and cell phones within a day, cutting off communication and limiting organization. They could have thousands of drones in the air within hours monitoring the skys with 8k cameras capable of using facial recognition thousands of feet in the air to locate the leaders. When they found the leaders stronghold they could bomb it back to the stone age and the people would never even know until it was too late. Unlike foreign campaigns, when the people calling the shots have everything to lose you don't just get pieces of the U.S. military might you get the entire enchilada.

...and in all of these cases that AR15 does nothing. I'm not saying take everyone's guns. For full disclosure my family owns guns, I shoot guns occasionally, the company I work for does work involving guns. I just am trying to wrap my head around how any person can actually rationalize in their mind that this specific reason is why we "need" guns. The ironic thing about all of this is that it would take the military backing of Russia or China to accomplish such a feat.

Loos like someone has never read the Turner Diaries.