> The guns you own with your second amendment rights will not protect you from riot cops in a helicopter with rifles or driving around in a tank. To even go toe

> The guns you own with your second amendment rights will not protect you from riot cops in a helicopter with rifles or driving around in a tank. To even go toe to toe with militarized police you'd need things that are incredibly illegal to own like RPGs, and you'd need training to use them. I hear this a lot, and it's silly. You just don't see it happen because generally the people who own the powerful weaponry are responsible and don't shoot at cops. Helicopters go down easy with 50BMG, and tanks are massively impractical the moment you get out of a city. They're easy to disable, have limited range, and can't safely handle a lot of terrain. > The only counter example I can think of is the recent case where a guy returned fire at a van full of cops (they were blindly spraying 'less-lethal' munitions at civilians from an unmarked van) after they shot at him. He got off because his defense was able to prove he had no way to know he was shooting at cops, otherwise he was gonna spend his life in prison. I think we'll be seeing more of this as more middle class people buy firearms and learn about self-defense laws. Cops abuse their power a lot, and it's beginning to happen to people who have lawyer money.