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A pretty poor argument for gun ownership... If this was the case, then personal handguns should be made illegal, and assault weapons should be available to all
by swombat 16y ago
A pretty poor argument for gun ownership...
If this was the case, then personal handguns should be made illegal, and assault weapons should be available to all with appropriate training.
Handguns aren't going to do much if the US government decides to ethnically cleanse a state.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoI don't think assault weapons would do much, either. Don't bring a machine gun to a tank fight.
- swombat 16y agoMachine guns are pretty handy for guerilla warfare. Tanks, not so much.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoThat was just an example. Others include: * helicopters * jet airplanes * satellites * artillery * light armored vehicles * unmanned drones etc. As a side note, I fucking hate HN's formatting.
- trafficlight 16y agoThe US military has all of those things and yet the Iraqi resistance still put up a good fight.
- semanticist 16y agoBecause the coalition forces in Iraq aren't engaged in ethnic cleansing. If they weren't worried about killing civilians and looking bad on the news, they could probably level most of the country.
- swombat 16y agoWith or without all those weapons, an ethnic cleansing operation becomes markedly more difficult when the local population all have assault weapons and training in how to use them...