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Before starting, I have no problem with gun ownership. I own myself and absolutely believe in the right to own firearms for self protection. I do not think that means anyone should be able to own firearms or that every type of firearm should be legal. Regulation and control is needed.
That statement can be argued in many different directions but the one I would like to focus on is owning weapons to defend yourself from a Tyrannical Government. This statement I find ridiculous for two reasons:
1.) For the government to turn on it's own people the military would have to be involved. Members of the military would have to march through the streets of the US and turn their weapons on the citizens. I have been in the military for 14 years and I can say, without a shadow or a doubt, that this will NEVER happen. I don't know a single person that I have served with that could ever be convinced to do this. Flat out, it will never happen with the volunteer force we have. Only nut jobs believe this might happen
2.) If in some conspiracy theory, fantasy world, this did happen, you can buy all the AR 15s you want but you're getting fucked up and quick. If the US Military went balls out on the public we're all dead.
So I think the Tyrannical Government argument is pretty moot when it comes to a reason for gun ownership.
It isn't.
Look at the open violation of the US constitution in the name of security.
If they will openly violate the 4th amendment in the name of security, they will do anything in the name of security.
Watch the movie the Siege, and tell me that martial law with US troops on US street corners wouldn't happen if we got told ISIS has a nuke on US soil.
That may sound extreme, but how extreme does economic collapse, followed by major social unrest the police couldn't handle, followed by martial law, and US deployment of the military within the country, sound?
If their are riots burning cities across the country, you are going to refuse the order to deploy on US soil?
You are full of shit and you know it.
As far as the US military owning the civilian population. On a open battlefield, of course. Using guerilla tactics, that million man army of the federal governments' is a knife showing up to an artillery fight.