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Arms, not guns. Also, tell that to the Vietnamese, and Afghanis.
Since we're ignoring morality and effectiveness in favor of semantics and self-centredness, I propose that "arms" meant literal arms, attached to your body.
After all, you can't have a well regulated militia full of double amputees.
Right, civilians with fighter jets and stealth bombers.
We arent talking about law in other countries, the second amendment only pertains to the US. So it would only pertain to you going to war with the US military and police force.
Yes.
I wasn't talking about laws in other countries. I was talking about armed rebellions that beat the US. You know the country with planes, bombers, tanks, and whatnot.
Damn, vietnam overthrew the US?
You've got to be trying to be that obtuse.
no, see you've gone onto overthrowing the US government as a justification for the second amendment, and used the Vietnam War as an example of guns defeating the US. But they didn't overthrow the US government, they never tried to or got anywhere in the vicinity of it. The US suffered embarrassingly high casualties, but Vietnamese got slaughtered, and US military left after massive pushback from US voters, not from an inability to continue
It was not the scenario of a US dictatorship being risen against. If that scenario were ever to happen, it's entirely gonna hinge on the loyalty of the military, whether or not they'd go to war against US citizens. It doesn't matter if they're armed or not.
The point is that an armed populace isn't just rolled over by the largest military in the world. Everybody thinks the "what do you think guns will do against jets" is such a gotcha, but there's lots of evidence even fighting foreign powers it's not that simple. Then you must consider that lots of the US military is pretty big on guns and you have a high likelihood of defection or sabotage of the military. And then even after that any use of the military in our own soil will be extremely unpopular creating even more insurgents.