Reply #28: When you inaugurate armed revolution against a sitting government, you take your chances, regardless...

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of the moral odor of that government. In this case, had NATO not intervened, it would have been disastrous for the insurgents in Libya to attempt to use "small arms" by themselves in armed struggle: the Libyan government would have slaughtered them, without compunction. The better part of valor in that instance would have been to put away their small arms, forget about stones, and attempt to persuade the West to come to their armed aid. And, oh look! That's exactly what happened. So your argument, like so much nonsense I see peddled in this place, when it comes down to cases, not only disproves the utility of bands of "citizen militias" taking on an organized military, it actually goes far to prove the opposite: the Second amendment, as some kind of guaranty against government "tyranny" here, is as superfluous and impotent for our modern context as quill pens are on the factory floor of a PC manufacturer.