I guess massive tongue in cheekness of my post aside what I was trying to say is that the American public can no longer stand against the American Military.VGC USpartan VS said:Actually, in most US States, you can own Assault Rifles if you have a licenseMelasZepheos said:. But nevertheless, I believe you wrong for saying America hates poor people. I have come to the conclusion that we dislike them but if a documentary covering the homeless comes out, we will help them.
Just because you can own an assault rifle, or even a Ground-Air Missile, doesn't mean you stand a chance against the full force of the American military. even if, for example, the entire state of Texas was to rise up in arms against America, all it would take would be one or two tactical insertions and the entire thing would be put down in minutes.
Even back in the old days of the American Civil War, the south were just as well armed and trained as the north, which is to say not very well armed and trained at all. There wasn't much of an army when America went to war last time round, the basic tenet was that you raised an army when you needed it from whoever was available. The concept of having a standing army ready at all times just didn't exist back then. So when the Civil War rolled around there were just as many conscripts for the South as the North, and the biggest discrepancy was not in men but the training of their leaders. This was in fact basically the point of the Second Amendment 'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' The idea is that an armed public is the ultimate defence against tyranny.
This was fine back in the days when a six shot revolver that took ten minutes to reload was considered uppity, and the majority of even the army were not what you'd call soldiers. If the public had ever risen up they would have been capable of genuinely fighting against the leaders of the land, as indeed they did in the Civil War.
But nowadays, as I mentioned, they have a standing army, with months of training and experience, leaders with a little more strategy than 'gather up all our men and charge in a straight line,' and no amount of home brew front porch rebellion, however well armed, is going to change that. The public of America could no longer stand against the might of the American war machine, unless said war machine decided to join their cause.
