Posted: Jan 28, 2013 6:48 pm
MacIver wrote:Minimolas wrote:Step outside of your fantasy world for a second and tell me just what in the fuck an unarmed populace should do if their government begins to kill its people?
This reasoning behind the 2nd Ad may of made sense in the 1700s but it doesn't hold any water in the modern world. No amount of semi-automatics are going to stop a totalitarian government armed with rocket launchers, tanks, jets and nukes.
Which is why Mubarak is still controlling Egypt, and Syria is firmly in control of Assad.
Semi-autos are not the end-all, be-all of weapon systems - but in resisting an oppressive government, they are one hell of a lot better than muzzle loaders.
Anyone who thinks that a population armed with ordinary small arms plus whatever they can improvise is no match at all for a modern military equipped with "rocket launchers, tanks, jets and nukes" (though why the last is included, given how many times they've been used against any population at all, is beyond me) is completely ignorant of not only history, but current events. With enough willpower and enough generalized dissatisfaction, few military forces can stand against a determined populace.