[Travis McGee]

The same FedGov that has dragged its feet all the way to a handful of pilots being armed, and prefers the solution of using F-16s to shoot down hijacked jets, will NEVER let armed civilians guard the powerlines.

They would rather see a 48 state blackout than armed civilians guarding our infrastructure.

It's all about control. The F-16 pilot is under direct National Command Authority control, the armed pilot is not.

[harpseal]

There is only one way to actually defend the USA proper and that is to use the citizenry as a militia. No regular army, including the reserve and national guard has enough manpower.