Reply #12: "a real threat to the powers that be"-HA! They've got the firepower. No...

[JohnOneillsMemory]

I sure understand what you're saying.
What if the Jews had been armed like Texans when the Nazis came?

The Black Panthers decided to halt police brutality with an armed vigilence. Of course, the cops just murdered some of them in their beds, like Fred Hampton in Chicago.


Once upon a time, the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights allowing the right to bear arms COULD balance against a tyrannical government. A bunch of Minutemen with muskets could take on the King's troops with muskets.

Now the government has far far far superior firepower.
Nuclear bombs, missiles, helicopters, Stinger missiles, you name it.

You can get some parity in firepower against your fellow citizens.
But not the government.

Winning the hearts and minds of the American people so they don't do the bidding of the tyrant is the key to long term democracy.