Reply #25: So you believe that the RKBA is only useful today when citizens form militias?

[arendt]

But, the minute you have an organization, you must compare the capabilities of that organization to the para-military or military forces it is fighting.

Militias would lack logistics, communications, special weapons, reconnaisance, and intelligence. They would be isolated and defeated in detail. The only alternative is guerilla warfare.

> And I can't imagine the majority of soldiers or LEOs being
> willing to engage in open combat with civilians, barring certain
> situations.

You are aware that, when the Chinese wanted to clean up Tienamin Square, they just brought army divisions in from the other end of the country, from out in the sticks?

Its real easy to get soldiers to attack if they have been propagandized that the enemy is out there. I also noticed how easily Blackwater mercenaries took to shooting at the victims in New Orleans.

Bottom line, as a resident of that communist enclave of Massachusetts, I most certainly can imagine a troop of soldiers from some podunk town out on the plains be willing to trash us "libruls".

arendt