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Of course you know I love this kind of stuff and love that my country has these capabilities, but I can't help thinking in the back of my mind, the gubmint will be hunting me some day with night vision, aerial drones, GPS, thermal sights that see through walls, and now bullets that can't miss, .50 caliber no less.( ouch!) The Second Amendment is great except your dead about 32 seconds after the war starts by someone that pushed a button 3000 miles away.

Now they can microwave you if you just want to protest in the street so you may as well stay home.

I remember feeling how helpless the towel heads must feel to throw themselves into battle with what we have arrayed against them. Just watch some video's and see them not even know they are being watched from miles away and a strike is called in from 30,000 ft from an AC 130 gunship. The first inkling that something is wrong is your buddy's liver hits you in the face. I guess all war is that way it just seems more efficient now. Now an idiot draftee can point a .50 cal your general direction and hit your brain pan from a mile away. The bullet may have to make a 90 degree turn to get there, but the bullet is smarter than the draftee.

Cheer up. Pretty soon slingshots will be all the US can afford.

There’s a bible verse that might cover this:

Revelation 13:4
Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?”

Of course you know I love this kind of stuff and love that my country has these capabilities, but I can't help thinking in the back of my mind, the gubmint will be hunting me some day with night vision, aerial drones, GPS, thermal sights that see through walls, and now bullets that can't miss, .50 caliber no less.( ouch!) The Second Amendment is great except your dead about 32 seconds after the war starts by someone that pushed a button 3000 miles away. Now they can microwave you if you just want to protest in the street so you may as well stay home.

You echo my thoughts.

I feel citizens should be given more than a fighting chance against their own military. That was the purpose of the Second Amendment, and it worked pretty well up until about the 1940's when tanks and air platforms were perfected. Still, even then, rifles and pistols were no joke.

However: How do you balance the need for citizens to have access to the full array of military hardware (the purpose of the Second Amendment), against the need to prevent a crazed citizen (or a Muslim -- same thing, really) from using said military hardware to effect great damage in the name of either Allah or the Little Green Leprechauns That Haunt Me In My Dreams And Live In My Closets (same thing, really)?