[GraniteStateConservative]

How exactly is an assault rifle going to protect you from the kind of weapons the DOD has? We could drop a smart bomb on you while you pick up your newspaper from the lawn.

If you ever become an enemy of the state, you'll be screwed and no firearm will save you.

[Rifleman]

This is the rifles vs panzer argument. Tanks are bullet proof, but politicians, who tell the tankers where to go are not.

Do some research on how wars of resistance are actually fought. Learn something about the subject, then your opinion will have some substance.

In any case, when the Resistance needs heavy weapons, they get them the same place that the GI's do, from the Supply Sargent. The paperwork is a bit different though.

[ez]

How exactly is an assault rifle going to protect you from the kind of weapons the DOD has? We could drop a smart bomb on you while you pick up your newspaper from the lawn.

What do you recommend I buy to protect me from a smart bomb? A single militiaman cannot counter the dedicated force of a state. Only in vast numbers does the value of the militia materialize.

The 2A is clearly written to arm the militia.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"If you ever become an enemy of the state, you'll be screwed and no firearm will save you."

So, that is why the military keeps the tens of thousands of infantry soldiers with rifles???

Wow, you are a military genious!

[demosthenes the elder]

prevalence of potent shoulder and side-arms in a tight knit, large, and interactive subculture in America directly equals an unacceptable risk of unstoppable reprisals for such a smart-bombing or other fascist abuse of power. That is why the politicos don't pull this kind of stunt (often) and is the inarguable reason why the 2nd Am exists in the first place.

[Noumenon]

Consider the fact that no politician can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever. And that won't mean a thing to those who practice a bit. Most of them know that, and it's a powerful restraint on the impulse to tyranny. If enough of them forget that or ignore it, well...

And really, what should give them pause is the fact that there are enough very, very fed up people with both the training and the motivation to carry the battle back to the real enemy. Not the confiscators, but the ones who sent them. We're not talking about an 'organized militia' - we're talking about the worst possible scenario - at least from a criminal politican's point of view - the independent actor. Lots of them.

As John Ross wrote in "Unintended Consequences," Stripping a motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their faces in it is a very bad idea. Short of a miracle, I expect we're going to find out just how bad an idea that is here in America.