What would you do about Virginia Tech?

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If given the choice, I would rather live in a society without guns (voluntarily without guns), but if I'm going to live in one with guns I'd prefer that they be spread around and not concentrated in the hands of a few. Gun control is about as stupid as any other type of prohibition.

That being said, I think the 2nd Amendment defense often latched onto is basically irrelevant. The 2nd Amendment had less to do with the right to have guns, than the right to protect yourself against a dictatorial government and the ability to overthrow that government, violently if necessary.

Which stops making sense when the government has apache helicopters and tanks and you have a couple handguns.



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I could be wrong, as I often am, but don't people in Iraq fight the US Soldiers who have tanks and helecopters, etc etc with mostly guns?

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Its ok, not your fault you are wrong.

There is very little fighting done with guns in Iraq against US forces. The majority of the fighting is small groups using bombs of one descript or another.

Plus most of the fighting has switched to attacking civilians. Its not enough to drive out the coalition, you need to have control when you do so.

But yeah, the concept that any dictatorial government will ever be overthrown by its people is silly. Its relies on a notion that:

a, A government like the US Gov can turn dictatorial
b, The people in the form of a malitia would be able to fight against the government

For A to happen, it would rely on a 100% loyal military, at which point B could never happen on a pure toe to toe environment. Also for A to come about you would need a large amount of your population to be willing to toe the line and accept the new dictatorship.

It would equate to asymetrical warfare. You might as well change the right to bear arms to the right to suicide bomb key targets in your objectives.

Again, all 100% hyperthetical, because it would never happen.