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My idea is that "the right to bear arms" should be reconsidered. One way or the other is fine, but I think that with military technology advancements we are in
by novaleaf 6y ago
My idea is that "the right to bear arms" should be reconsidered. One way or the other is fine, but I think that with military technology advancements we are in a poor middle ground right now. If we as Americans affirm the 2nd amendment, then the right to bear arms should be relaxed considerably (meaning, more military equipment should be allowed to civilians. If we reject the 2nd amendment then guns should be restricted to a greater degree (maybe like Canada)
The 2nd amendment is not a right to own a gun. Here is it's text:
> 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.
so what I'm arguing is that "small arms" are now basically ineffective arms.
If for some reason the USA Military became Americas enemy there's no way a credible opposition could rise without another military backing it. The point of the 2nd amendment is impossible today, so I think we should either fix it, or abolish it.
- frank2 6y ago>"small arms" are now basically ineffective arms Are you sure? Half of the grunts in an US infantry platoon carry only weapons (specifically the M-4) available to civilians. Civilians' having small arms greatly increases the number of soldiers needed to repress them, and the more soldiers needed, the more likely soldiers will revolt against the repression.
- mulmen 6y agoThe M4 is not available to civilians. And don't try to tell me an AR-15 is the same thing as an M4. What does the other half of the platoon carry? The argument here seems to be that civilians do not have an effective counter for an F-35. Or a B-52. Or an M1 Abrams.
- SamPatt 6y agoTens of millions of armed citizens is absolutely an effective counter to any threat. Imagine keeping supply lines moving across a country this large if you knew millions of armed people would try to shut you down.
- frank2 6y ago>What does the other half of the platoon carry? M249 light machine guns and M240 medium machine guns, neither of which are available to US civilians.
- pluto9 6y ago> And don't try to tell me an AR-15 is the same thing as an M4. For all intents and purposes, they are the same. An M4 has a barrel that is 1.5" shorter than most civilian AR15s and it has a 3-round burst setting that is almost never used because it's worthless. I've spent a considerable amount of time behind both of them and I assure you they are functionally identical in basically every real-world use case.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y agoHow exactly do you plan on keeping occupation of a country when the entire place is full of armed citizens that don't like you? That's the point. A military coup in the USA is unlikely to succeed.
- mixedCase 6y agoThe military's capability to destroy and glass entire places far outpaces the civilian capability to do the same. But to wage war against its citizens into submission without destroying the productive value that makes them useful to the powers that be? No way.
- dublinben 6y agoHow can handguns or other small arms both be a scourge that are used in the majority of gun homicides, and also "ineffective" at the same time?