WadeVsTraffic wrote:Something tells me the NRA isn't exactly thrilled about Alex Jones being the face attached with gun advocacy. As for the 2nd amendment being the only thing protecting us from 'tyranny', well that's just completely delusional thinking. 1) Term limits protect us from 'tyranny' not guns. 2) All the guns in the world would be useless against a 1st class military equipped with tanks, bomber jets, drones, missiles etc.... So this idea that the 2nd amendment somehow protects us from 'tyranny' is just a hilarious notion. There will never be a second American Revolution.
1 - Term limits are good, but do not protect you from tyranny... if nobody but the President has guns and he says, 'no more Constitution, I am now President for life' ... what protects you then?
2 - That argument does not really hold water.
1st - Would said new King of US be willing to drone strike, bomber and torch his own cities? We have many many "collateral damage" aka innocent men, women and children killed for every terrorist we drone strike. How long will he have support of the people while he uses scorch the earth methods to flush out the "terrorists" not loyal to him.
2nd - Who makes up the bulk of the private gun collections? Current and former military and police. Many of these people will not be loyal to a command of disarming the US public and if an uprising comes up, you now will have many defectors.
3rd - After some people who just dont agree its ok to take peoples guns defect, what about the ones who are now ordered to open up fire on their own? You are in the military and are told to lay down gunfire on your hometown to flush out the "terrorists"? How many will turn on their own chain of command and give info to the "terrorists"
4th - Lets just use #s. They say that 80 million people own 300+ million guns. If even 1% of those are willing to take up arms and form a gorilla assault on the US that is more people with more guns in a larger area than those in Iraq... how well did that work out for us? Its still a mess...add in the first 3 factors and it makes that war that much harder to fight.
Its not a given that the US military has the stomach or ability to defeat an armed insurgency from its own people...not by a long shot