Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:10:52 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, cjclark@home.com, ragnar@sysabend.org, mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, noslenj@swbell.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"] Message-ID: <38E2C5BC.A1CED34E@originative.co.uk> References: <20000329133624.5372F37B55A@hub.freebsd.org>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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