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And an armed citizenry will stop enemy air forces with what? You plan on shooting down Chinese ICBM's with your hunting rifle? You plan on shooting those pesky biological weapons? Our enemies are using terrorists because we have a strong professional military with the most advanced (and expensive) equipment. Replace that with just an armed citizenry, and our enemies will go back to using big armies and navies. An armed citizenry against modern tanks and jets is a dead citizenry. Even the Chechens lost Grozny twice when they tried to defend it (and the Russians lost it back once when they tried the same).

during wwII, the allies dropped inexpensive single shot derringers to the french resistance... what could a single gun do to the armed forces of the third reich... well, they used the close quarters gun to kill an enemy soldier and then take his gun and so on and so on... for a country to be conquered, the infantry must move into the territory, an armed citizenry prevents that, your air forces won't win the war, the large navies won't defeat us, the armed citizenry does not replace an army for fire power, but when achmed tries to take a plane, he's dead, when the pizza terrorist tries to light his shoes, he's shot dead...

will people die in war, they always do.

tanks and jets must be kept and maintained somewhere... an armed citizenry, with its vast numbers can be there...