For The Gun Lovers Who Believe That They Can Overtake the U.S. Govt with their Guns

[Yavin4]

This is a predator drone. It will kill you before you are even aware of it. Your guns are no match for these drones. You cannot defeat the U.S. govt. in any sort of guerilla war fare.

[kelliekat44]

1. Don't worry, i am sure the NRA has some drones of their own on the way.

Really, these people only want guns to shoot those "others" whom they imagine are coming to take their "stuff."

[durablend]

41. Nah their real objective

If society "collapses" is to git themselves some stuff.

"My money's no good so how about some hot lead instead?"

[Bjorn Against]

2. I always want to ask those people when they believe it becomes OK to shoot cops

Because that is essentially what they are arguing when they suggest they are going to turn their guns on the government, law enforcement is the government.

If the gun nuts are going to argue it is OK to use their guns against the government they need to explain to us when they believe it becomes morally acceptable to start shooting cops and other government officials.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. Don't expect the expected. Right.

Assumptions aside who knows where an armed conflict would lead?

"If the gun nuts are going to argue it is OK to use their guns against the government they need to explain to us when they believe it becomes morally acceptable to start shooting cops and other government officials."

Why would you expect them to explain anything?

[ashling]

32. Nobody expects

[ellisonz]

3. "Second Amendment Remedies"

[WillyT]

4. Ya Know... If Everybody Still Had Muskets... And ONLY Muskets... They Might Have A Chance...

Not against drones... but against our evil socialist government.

Ironic...no ???

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. Yeah, that's why we are still fighting wars in Iraq and Afganistan

After 10 years. Because people who live in caves couldn't possibly take on the U.S. of A.

[CJCRANE]

7. But that's their own country

and the coalition has a limited amount of resources there.

Taking on the USA in the USA would be a different matter.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

10. So, it would be different in "our country"?

[CJCRANE]

14. It depends on the political will and the public mood.

The number of weapons in civilian hands is not that important initially.

In Iraq I assume most of the weapons came from the military weapons caches that were looted and also from disgruntled police officers and soldiers when the military and police force was disbanded by the CPA. Once law and order breaks down then weapons also flow in from other countries.

As for Afghanistan, that's been on a war footing for the last few decades and again weapons flow in from other countries in the region.

[Yavin4]

24. All Comparisons Between Iraq and Afghanistan Are Inapt

The U.S. govt has to fight those wars and win public support at the same time.

The more apt comparison is the U.S. Civil War. The North decimated the South. Sherman's march was fucking brutal. Imagine that one a much larger scale with far superior weaponry.

[uponit7771]

37. Civil War was all tea and crumpets? tia

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

11. Sorry, but that's wrong.

"But that's their own country."

And a lot of different places in the USA are "their own country" as well.

I bet you might know of a lot of places that would make a good place to hide and move out from.


Never expect anything to be easy especially conflict.

[Yavin4]

21. Oh, Please.

The U.S. can find and kill anyone it wants to, esp. within its own borders. Are you kidding me?? You cannot hide in the U.S. and launch an armed revolution against the govt. It's silly to think so.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

38. Yes, and they welcomed us with flowers in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan would

be over shortly.

[Yavin4]

16. Uh...We're Not Fighting Those Wars At Full Capacity. We could do far more damage if we wanted to.

We have to be careful to not alienate the population of Afghanistan. That won't be the case if the U.S. is fighting a local insurrection.

[Hoyt]

6. Personally, I don't want to be shooting my neighbors if a catastrophe comes.

But I swear, some of the gun nuts are so callous, and often bigoted , that I think it wouldn't bother them a bit.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. Do you believe that one of these drones would have stopped

the Sandy Brook shooter?

As I wrote in another post, don't expect a gun lover to be stupid. There are plenty of ways to carry out a protracted war, and technology doesn't always work like it does in a movie.

BTW: How many innocent people have our drones killed abroad? I'll bet more than Sandy Brook.
What does that make us as a nation?

We reap as we sow.

[Yavin4]

19. Man, You Flew Past My Original Point.

My point is that owning guns so that you can launch a revolution against the govt. is folly. The govt. has vastly superior military tech. and can easily overtake a populace in armed revolt.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

39. And my point is that it is never that easy.

The last time the US was faced with a open revolt it took 4 years and 620k lives.

I wouldn't want to put it to the test, honestly.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Sufferance enhancement is fair check on overreach.

What profit is it in bombing away a large portion of the country?

Damage dealing ability doesn't translate to occupation ability nor do people who aspire to be a free people tolerate a state with forces capable of subjugating them by force and it isn't, not without decimating the population and lots of expensive infrastructure and "collateral damage".

Silly fuckers should be losing their shit to ban your vaunted drones but are trying to figure out how to be sheep.

A nation is its people.

[galileoreloaded]

13. Who does the dude who flies the drone believe in?

context for the win

[Yavin4]

18. Like There's Just One Dude? Multiple Dudes and Dudettes.

Multiple people at multiple locations literally all over the world or even in space.

[LAGC]

15. The people who fly the drones have to leave the office sometime.

The people who drive the tanks have to get out sometime.

The people who fly the planes...

Well, you get the idea.

[Yavin4]

17. You have no idea of where they are.

They could be here in the U.S. or aboard an aircraft carrier at sea. Or a submarine. Or in a bunker in South Dakota. Or even in fucking space.

[LAGC]

20. Oh, I think in a real insurgency situation, intelligence would leak.

If the government ever alienated a broad swath of Americans, there would be leaks all over from the inside.

[Yavin4]

25. If The U.S. Govt Was Faced with a Domestic Military Insurgency

They would snuff it out before American Idol got through half a season.

[LAGC]

26. Doubtful.

Insurgents would be civilians first and foremost, so they could be hiding anywhere. It wouldn't be like the Civil War where armies dutifully lined up to get shot.

Don't kid yourself. It would be a prolonged bloody mess.

Let's hope it never comes down to that in this country.

[donheld]

27. Umm

http://bit.ly/V6bXlO

[Yavin4]

29. Your Point Is?

I don't get your point.

[donheld]

31. My point is that the drones are already here in the US

with many more on the way.

[k2qb3]

23. Doubt that would be the issue.

Military and LE tend to be pro-gun.

The underlying fallacy in this fantasy of waging an actual war to eradicate your political opponents is it assumes the people you pay to carry guns for you (to eliminate guns) will follow orders to fire on American civilians.

The last thing this country needs, or anybody wants, is a civil war.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

40. Bingo.

[jeff47]

36. And they're replaced by other people flying the drones before they do.

24/7 coverage isn't that hard.

Plus this is one weapons system. We have a lot of others where an assault rife is utterly ineffective.

[DURHAM D]

22. Are there any plans to give drones to teachers? nt

[donheld]

28. Hey, It's only Tuesday.

Give it another day or two.

[durablend]

42. Kids will LOVE them!

They all love remote controlled stuff!

[shintao]

30. The Threat isn't the US Government !!

No, we do not fear the US military, we fear the Mexican Army who our government refuses to protect us from. Our government has a wide open door at the CA border with illegals passing through at will. Eventually the Mexican Army is going to take advantage of that and reclaim California. We must be prepared to defend ourselves when our own government refuses to do the job. That is why we have a 2nd.

[TeamPooka]

33. great, now everybody will want one... nt

[ProgressiveProfessor]

34. I am yet to talk to any gun owner who really believes that

Red Dawn and the Turner Diaries not withstanding

[JohnnyRingo]

35. I usually ask my right wing friends....

"Who asked you to do that?"

I'm sure that the majority of Americans would rather not live under the interpretation of a Tea Bag constitution. The result will not be a sigh of relief that someone is "taking back their country" so much as a civil war.

[NMDemDist2]

43. that's what hubby said to a bunch of red necked loud mouths at work last week

his quote was "Hmmmm, I wonder if you'll hear the drone before it launches"

he said the guys got quiet and then all found some work calling them