“Lead can’t stand up to that!”
It all depends. In the ‘stans, one of the major drawbacks for the locals is that our command and control structure is thousands of mile away and very difficult (for them)to penetrate.
We can sit overseas and observe or guide UAV’s on target to their leadership, and they cannot return the favour.
Here, it would be very difficult to keep the heads away from the reach of even a small portion of these 14 million registerd hunters. We may be able to keep out the crazies from without (not, IMHO without the protection of providence...), but it is not possible to keep every one in leadership here protected out to 500 meters all the time.
If UAV’s begin targeting Americans on American soil, the answer is not to attempt to knock them down with a few grains of lead, but to apply those precision guided projectiles to the heads of the ones giving the orders.
Which is the premiss of the article. There is no defense against a leaderless but determined number of people who have declared open season on the leadership of a country gone amuck.
Which is exactly why Obama has invited the "leaders" of the Tea Party to talk with him.
The enemy wants to smoke out (or more likely create) a Tea Party leadership that frankly doesn't exist, so that they can target them for public humiliation and personal destruction.
Their Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" doesn't work on an amorphous, decentralized movement such as the Tea Party. Woe to anyone on our side who foolishly presents themselves to the public as a "leader", or "spokesman" of the Tea Party. May as well commit suicide.