[Havok]

Oh so true.

[SamuraiScot]

The government has and will always have more firepower than you, you and your neighbors, you and your like-minded friends or you and anybody you can conscript to your way of thinking.

This one must have been written close to deadline.

The government, united, with good intelligence, with competent and willing troops, has more firepower than you. But the government, riven with dissent, not knowing where its enemies are, trying to send soldiers who don't agree with it into harm's way, has a harder time. It's terribly expensive to put down a popular insurrection, and many insurrections don't even stay where they're put.

Politicians and the people who work for them don't like to be shot at. The threat of unpredictably applied, lethal force changes the atmosphere, even if government forces would hypothetically win on an imaginary level playing field. This is why terrorism is such a problem: With miniaturized technology and quick travel on his side, even one guy can cause a lot of trouble.

The writer's calculations are about 225 years out of date.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

http://www.angelfire.com/ab/PatriotTruth/onegun.html

[JasonC]

Here is the dirty little secret the original writer overlooks. The way they have been treated in the past several years, the US military is past giving a damn what any leftist government tells them to do or not to do.

[mad_as_he$$]

You sir clearly do not understand.

Close to my home is a Guard Armory. Ten well armed and determined men could overpower the security on any week day. They would then have access to armed helos, heavy weapons and ammo, anti-air capability and a large amount of fuel with the means to move it. The nearest Government force that could stop them is 60 miles away and has very limited GROUND forces. With this capability they could move to the Capitol of the next state and procure anything they want. 40 miles further is one of the largest weapons depository in the US. Heavy bombers and fighters would become available and by that point the people who could operate them. In the end they may lose but they could put up a hell of a fight. With virtually ALL of the Army’s heavy divisions currently overseas a coordinated attack against federal facilities would be very hard to stop.

I expect that the terrorists will attempt this in the not to distant future.

Not that I condone this but the possibility is very real. Give me a rock and I can get a gun, give me a gun and I can get a tank - self explanatory. It does help if I can start with a gun, saves time and loses.

[mad_as_he$$]

Oh yea I forgot:

"Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order." --Ed Howdershelt