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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?”

Almost nothing - if someone is honest about it. I have seen that article posted again and again and it simply isn’t realistic. What handguns would be useful for - and I am not actually advocating this - is taking out soft targets in a terror campaign against “an Army”, that is, murdering the wives and children of soldiers to make the rest hesitant to follow orders. I wouldn’t want that even if it was effective.


16 posted on 06/05/2016 8:00:13 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

Your an udiot. It’s good for guerilla,war. Americans have never practiced murder.


17 posted on 06/05/2016 8:02:52 PM PDT by The Cuban
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To: vladimir998

I will respectfully disagree with you.

I sincerely hope it never comes to pass that either one of our opinions is actually proven.

Still, there are more than handguns floating around in the possession of the civilian population in the US. A lot more. I suspect that since 2008 the private ammo stash has increased dramatically. 30 years ago one would keep a couple of boxes around and pick up what was needed that day on the way to the range. I don’t think that is so much the case now.


18 posted on 06/05/2016 8:09:49 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: vladimir998

If the poorest people are the most obese and continue to be well fed, I’m not sure any amount of whatever kind of gun will make any difference. Has there ever been some kind of impactful civil conflict where the poorest people are as comfortable and healthy as ours? I ask because you would probably know.

Freegards


20 posted on 06/05/2016 8:14:31 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: vladimir998

Those are exactly the tactics used against Iraqi police and military officers after the US pulled out. Is it any wonder that the “insurgents” and iSIS/L had such a cake walk?


41 posted on 06/06/2016 6:05:02 AM PDT by Roccus (POLITICIAN....JOURNALIST............... four letter words spelled with ten letters.)
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