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To: entropy12
But a drone can demolish your home in a second with a rocket. Your guns are entirely useless against a drone.

Nonsense. Your guns are useless against heavy weaponry, not heavy weaponry mounted on a drone.

You can keep guns at home to defend yourself from an attacker.

The 2nd Amendment might, or might not, mean Americans as a people have sufficient firepower to defend themselves against a government turned tyrannical. Hopefully it will never reach the point we find out.

But it is nonsense on stilts to pretend that an individual American family will be able to defend itself successfully against overbearing LEOs or military. If you initially repel an attack, which is arguably what happened at Ruby Ridge or Waco, the government doesn't crawl away and lick its wounds. It brings in as many reinforcements and as much heavy weaponry as is necessary to take you down.

Weapons in the home may be highly useful against criminal intruders. A firefight with LEO or military will not have a happy ending.

You can make a decent case that going down fighting makes it a good day to die, but don't deceive yourself that you won't be going down. Possibly you will spark a rebellion that will eventually win, but you and probably your family won't be there to see it.

11 posted on 03/07/2013 4:12:48 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Its pretty wild we’re openly talking about this now.


12 posted on 03/07/2013 4:29:41 AM PST by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: Sherman Logan

You need to look at real world examples in order to draw reasonable scenarios and conclusions.

After Kaddhafi gave the order to his army to fire on Libyans, 75% of the army deserted and returned to their provinces to protect their families. On their way home, they emptied out the armories.

What remained were officers in Kaddhafi’s elite guard and raw recruits with few weapons. They were completely incapable of carrying out any effective military operation. Many of the officers left the recruits to fend for themselves, and they headed for the Niger border, loaded with stolen loot. Kaddhafi had to order out his southern mercenaries in an effort to quell the Libyan revolt. When his mercenaries opened fire on students at a university, all hell broke loose.

The army deserters teamed with provincial militias and attacked the Kaddhafi dictatorship and his mercenaries. The mercenaries were executed and hanged from lampposts. Their towns were burned to the ground. The militias organized patrols to track down and capture Kaddhafi loyalists. The chief of the army was dragged into a courtyard and executed, as were other army officers loyal to Kaddhafi.

Khaddiafi himself was snared by a desert patrol and executed on the hood of an SUV with his gold-plated Browning. Here’s a picture of it:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/10/qaddafis-love-affair-golden-guns/43938/


16 posted on 03/07/2013 6:00:19 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Sherman Logan

A drone is flying silently in the dark firing rockets from a mile away at my house. Let’s see... I am fast asleep and as soon as hear the rocket noise, I jump out of bed and grab my 50 caliber gun and shoot the speeding rocket down before it reaches my house? Yes, sounds quite possible /SARC

Please do not bother to reply, I do not relish illogical debates.


21 posted on 03/07/2013 10:06:42 AM PST by entropy12 (The republic is doomed cuz people have figured out they can get free stuff by voting democrats)
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