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    Default Re: Colorado passes Gun Control Laws

    Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
    Are you being thick on purpose? The majority of your argument as far as I could gather was that the prospect impossible because of the size of the population was far greater than in australia. As I said that is an absurd argument.

    If the american government seriously wanted to take the american people's liberty, the guns in the posession of your civilian population could do jack to stop it, bullets cant beat tanks, planes, missiles or helicopters. Once upon a time a bunch of civillians with guns might have been powerful enough to challenge the US government. Now, the second amendment is obsolete and a gun is less useful for countering tyranny than fertilizer.
    Yes, rock beats scissors, but to pretend that the US government could withstand even 5 million militants, some with college degrees or heavy technical knowledge, with the nominal support of half the population is a bit foolish on it's own. Small arms would struggle to be effective against the kind of military that we have here, but to pretend that an army of 1.4 million active duty troops would retain those numbers in a civil insurrection or be able to cope with an educated population 10 times more numerous than Afghanistan in a landmass 20 times larger than Afghanistan... I think that there would be a fighting chance. I wouldn't write them off is all I'm saying. Barbarian's and self-delusion have collapsed empires throughout history.
    Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 05-15-2013 at 02:14.
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