[Don Myers]

"Don't fight an army with a handgun. If you ever get into such a situation, go after the civilian leadership. It's much more effective."

I believe that you are saying to start from the top and go down rather than start at the bottom and go up.

[go star go]

That's it...

[Swordmaker]

It takes a lot less ammo!

[Ancesthntr]

"Don't fight an army with a handgun. If you ever get into such a situation, go after the civilian leadership. It's much more effective."

Perhaps just as effective, in terms of psychologically crippling a civilian leadership intent on imposing a tyranny, would be a credible threat to eliminate their families. Such a credible threat could paralyze the would-be tyrants even before they took any irreversible steps toward tyranny.

It is all an economic equation - raise the cost of anything too much, and no one is interested in buying. This is, in my view, the specific reason for the existence of the Second Amendment - to let future would-be tyrants know that the liberty-loving populace would be armed.

Besides, if they threaten the families of those who would resist the impostion of a tyranny (which they clearly do), well, there's always "collateral damage" on both sides in a war.

Molon Labe! Sic Semper Tyrannis!