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Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to 
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"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote:
> 
> >
> > This nation (the United States) was born from armed citizens
> > with as good or better weapons than their oppressors rising
> > up against tyrrany.  This was less than 225 years ago, which
> > is only about three times the current adult life expectances.
> >
> 
> 1776:
>         British Army:           muskets and cannon.
>         Revolutionaries:        muskets.
> 
>         not too inequal
> 
> 1999:
>         British Army:           tanks, arty, rifles
>         Revolutionaries:        rifles.
> 
>         ouch.
> 
>         trying to fight against a combined arms unit with only rifles
> is a real bear.

One of the things  people often forget when considering insurrections of
the people are that the armed forces of the govt are also the people.
You won't get the army killing friends and relatives, or fellow
countrymen, just because the govt says so. During civil war situations
the standing army usually has a lot of deserters often led by middle
ranking officers who just up and switch sides taking the whole squadron
or whatever with them, weapons and all. So should the situation arise I
suspect the revolutionaries will have more than rifles.

Paul.


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