Originally Posted By: Stan
Originally Posted By: nca225
Originally Posted By: Stan
nca225,

Your attempt to glorify the unlikely, in an effort to mask the realistic, is not lost on me. But, it's so predictable. Practice up, man. Can't you do better than that?

Was Jefferson, and the other founding fathers who foresaw the possibility of tyranny, a total fool, or was he a visionary? We cannot answer that until the answer presents itself, but we are fools if we are not prepared for the worst.

SRH




Well, Stan, I do have to question person's state of mind if they think the 2nd amendment is going to save them from a despotic government with today's technology. The only defense against that are alliances, institutions and the courts.

With respect to the vision of the founders, it was visionary of Jefferson and et all, but that protection they put in there became realistically worthless the moment the standing army was created and along with it the military industrial complex to arm it.


So said those who sided with Britain, when the American colonies decided the risk was worth the possible reward. What was the ultimate result?

You place your hope in "the courts", I'll place mine otherwise.

SRH


Your free to do so. If the sh!t hits the fan, best of luck to you!

You do realize that the small arms that the patriots had at their disposal often were superior to that of a British regular? Sure, musket volleys are devastating to Napoleonic formations in range, but those PA rifles some of our boys had could shoot pinpoint accuracy at better then 3x the distance.

The point being that at the time the technology between the US and Britain was pretty much on par, with the advantage to the US because of the rifle. There is no parity of technology between and armed populace and the military today.

Last edited by nca225; 08/29/19 10:23 PM.
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