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Ordinary civilians with guns don't have a great track record in modern history. They lack logistics and organization, so they are usually just slaughtered. Admi
by tormeh 8y ago
Ordinary civilians with guns don't have a great track record in modern history. They lack logistics and organization, so they are usually just slaughtered. Admittedly it's a bit better when the army is domestic, because domestic armies have sympathizers and has less appetite for killing, but the odds are not great.
- DuskStar 8y agoI think the examples provided by the Vietcong and Taliban would disagree. Picking the irregulars out of a city of civilians is really damn hard, and 'kill all the civilians' is not typically an acceptable solution, for better or worse. (There's some evidence from Russia that 'kill a bunch of the civilians in the area housing terrorists while going after the terrorists' reduces total casualties by removing cities as safe areas)
- rebuilder 8y agoThe viet minh and taleban were hardly ordinary civilians dusting off their rifles from their closets.