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To: MaxMax

With all due respect, civilian weaponry doesn’t match military firepower.

Civilians don’t have:

Carrier battle groups.
Stealth bombers.
Nukes.
Predator drones w/Hellfire missiles.
RPG’s.
Howitzers.
Tanks.
TOW missiles.
Apache attack helicopters.
etc., etc.

I wouldn’t count on the military siding with civilians. Some units may, but if push really came to shove, the bulk of the military will side with the government. And if that happens, and they turn full-on against the civilian population, civvies don’t stand a snowballs chance in Hell.


45 posted on 01/18/2013 2:23:21 AM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

With all due respect, the British Army has all the hardware you list, but could not defeat a small band of its own subjects in Northern Ireland. Using the tactics pioneered by Michael Collins in the 20’s, civilians are not helpless against their government.


46 posted on 01/18/2013 5:33:04 AM PST by gusty
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Dang, and I was saving up for a Howitzer.


50 posted on 01/18/2013 8:19:43 AM PST by MaxMax (Gun free zones was the invitation to gun bans by the left, at any cost)
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