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Re: guns, guns, guns (was: demographics (was: My Gun Control Rant))
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:21:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > Most modern Armies are trained in urban clearance - it is a key part of
> > modern warfare. Personally, I fail to see how a bunch of out to shape middle
> > aged men can put up any sort of credible resistance, with small arms,
> > against a well trained military. To me, the notion that a man with pistol
> > can put up anything more than a token resistance is absurd.
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> Who is it that you think is out of shape and middle aged?
Me for one. :)
> Similarly, who is it
> that you think only has pistols? In the US, it is easy to acquire military
> ordnance that "fell of a truck."
Yes - but that is illegal.
> While I have never engaged in such
> transactions, of course, I have been aware of the possibility to purchase (at
> what I would call reasonable prices) modern military machine guns, hand
> grenades, and anti-personnel mines. If little ole suburban _me_ has that kind
> of exposure, then how much serious hardware must be out there and available?
It really is a worry. Neadless to say, some of your civilian countrymen have
a history of exporting these weapons to murderers across the globe.
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> Also, I think that you are wrongly discounting what numbers and home-turf
> familiarity can mean during a skirmish.
Tell that to the Kurds. Tell that to the Kosovans. (spelling)
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> > Naturally, all that assumes that the military would not divide. If it did
> > divide, the gun owning populous would be even more ineffectual.
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> Unless I'm missing your point, this seems patently wrong. Assuming that the
> military split because one side agreed with the revolutionaries, then they
> would act as adjunct forces, synergistically augmenting their strengths.
Mountains and mole hills.
Scott A
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