>Do people really think their handgun is going to help them resist a predator drone strike? No, but as a group the people of the US would most certainly defeat

>Do people really think their handgun is going to help them resist a predator drone strike? No, but as a group the people of the US would most certainly defeat the US military. As others pointed out much less armed and smaller groups have held the military at bay, and for long periods of time. But there are two much bigger factors in US military vs US people. 1) Telling soldiers to attack their own people is not going to be as smooth as telling to attack foreigners, especially in any size. 2) The biggest issue by far is that the US military needs a massive functioning economy to provide support for them to function any length of time. Look how much war costs - that represents acquisitions, salaries for civilians, replacement, etc. If they disrupted their own economic base they'd fall pretty quickly. So comparing a handgun to a drone is shortsighted. In reality the people are a massive check on the current form of the military.