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Personal firearms are worthless against NBC weapons. And I wouldn't be surprised to know genetic weapons are being developed...

• GVIrish 13y ago
  Yes, but that's assuming there are people in the government with the will to deploy those weapons against the public. At best they'd only achieve pyrrhic victory.
• shabble 13y ago
  Not in an insurgency, low-intensity warfare sort of way. Not unless you can somehow make them very targeted. "We had to destroy the [village] in order to save it" doesn't really apply if you consider, say, New York City. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 (and, of course, successful terrorist acts over the last decade) demonstrated, low tech is still Good Enough for a lot of purposes.
  • rapind 13y ago
    Exactly. It's guerilla warfare. The military would be next to useless in a situation like that. Not to mention morale issues.