What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
sorry to complain but there is a thread with nearly 400 replies here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2916269/posts
(search “titles” one word at a time. “2016” brought up the original right away)
Revolution is coming.
Hey, izaarto. This crap story has already been trashed by JR. It’s crap from examiner.com. Examiner.com is populated by left wing scum who will steal your underpants.
Cheers, buddy.
I sent my congressman, Mike Rogers of Alabama, an email the other day and asked WHY the dept of HLS needed to purchase 450 MILLION hollow point bullets since they are illegal for military forces and illegal for police. I have not yet heard from him, but will be posting his reply here when it happens. I am very interested too see his response.
If this is the best they can come up with I’m not too worried.
I think the best rebuttal to an article like this would be a picture of a large gallows, depicting US military officers of high rank, in their dress uniforms, but with black bags over their heads, unceremoniously dangling as a group. In all fairness, each military branch should be represented.
Nailed to the front of the gallows is a copy of the US constitution with the word “Traitors” painted across it.
Of course not a mention of what is actually taking place in Chicago today.
Does it seem obvious to anyone else that our government is so angry at our respect for our founders and founding documents, that they are actually planing to take us down for it?
Excuse me, but you don’t do that unless you have one massive guilty conscience.
I refer you to Afghanistan and Iraq.
The military would have a SOB of a time “crushing” any domestic uprising. The IRA never numbered more than several hundred. The Brits controlled the whole of northern Ireland with a very professional army. They had the insurgency basically confined to an island where they controlled all approaches. The British fought on for decades, and finally had to negotiate a peace.
1) First, a domestic uprising would only happen after extreme provocation, so people nationwide would already be on edge. The uprising would never happen unless something happened to convince people that all political remedies were futile, and the government would likely start the rebellion with some overt act that went “too far”.
2) a crushing response only spreads the movement.
3) Fighting in Iraq is one thing, doing it on you own logistical tail is quite another.
4) No insurgency would face them force on force. It would be another of those fights seen all around the world involving IEDs, blackmail, ambush, deceit, and military leaders would find their families targeted for kidnap, murder, etc. This recently happened when a Mexican Marine was killed fighting Cartels. They gave him a funeral with honors. Later that night, his mother, sister, and several others were all murdered.
History shows that political leaders who ordered and supported a US military attack on American citizens would also be personal endangered, bribed, blackmailed, and neutralized.
Imagine for example, a drone operator shot dead as he stopped for gas on his way home in Nevada, a thousand miles from the war zone. No military would be safe, anywhere. The crackdown would have to be nationwide, and wouldn’t stay local. The heavy handed actions necessary would anger people who were not involved to begin with. Resentment towards the government grows.
5) Our military uses the USA as a home base. Their bases, supply depots, maintenence activites, factories, air bases etcc are extremely vulnerable and scattered.
6) The Military would have to be extremely concerned about their troops loyalty. Often they will be sypathetic to the uprising. A classic example is found in Russia. When the tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991. They were supposed to crush the pro-Yeltsin crowd. In about a half hour they were hugging the crowd, sharing tea and bread, and started shelling the Russian government building on BEHALF of the crowd.
7) Our military is amazing when used against a foreign enemy. But if it was turned against the American people, here in America, you would quickly see it swallowed up into a nationwide chasm of national disorder. Our military just spent 10 years in Iraq which is about the size of Texas. It was bled white, and most units did 3, 4, or 5 tours.
8) In recent wars, the military could always rest and refit here. They knew their families were safe at home. They knew that in general the nation was behind them. Its a very different animal when none of that is true.
9) The chaos causes extreme business disruptions in our close coupled, just in time economy. This adds pressure to quickly negotiate. Politicians are under unbelievable pressure. The opposition party is seen as an alternative to the one that sparked the insurgency.
There won’t be a Gettysburg in modern insurgency. There will be a nasty insurgency, with a political component that would be as important as the killing wing.
This experience is best left to the imagination.
Sorry for the shouting but I just have had enough of this leftard crap for one day.
LLS
The exact scenario is fanciful, but the real point is getting them used to the idea of firing on Americans.