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Originally posted by pnwbeers:
I own several guns and am generally opposed to gun control. That said, how can I defend myself from the government even with my guns? They have, like, tanks and stuff. Not to mention planes, missile, bombs, artillery, etc. Not much me and my bolt action '06 or Marlin 30-30 can do against that kind of firepower. Just sayin...
Yes, because no uprising in the history of man has ever held its own using small arms and improvised weaponry against a larger, more organized army with superior firepower.

Except for (in the last hundred or so years):

--The Arab Revolt against the Ottomans in WWI
--The East Africa Campaign, WWI
--Numerous factions involved in the Russian Civil War
--Countless local guerrilla factions in WWII, both theaters
--Vietnamese National Army (against France)
--Viet Cong (against the US)
--Zapata's Army
--Afghani "Mujahedeen"
--Israeli Guerrilla Forces (against Britain)
--Nepalese Maoists
--Cuban Revolution
--Zimbabwean ZANU and ZAPU
--Algerian NLF
--Mozambican RENAMO

And I haven't even mentioned lots more in the Middle East, and scads of factions in South America. Wait...Indonesia, Angola, Eritrea, Chinese Communists, the IRA...

...do you see where I'm going with this?

In the incredibly odd chance we get some whack-job bullshit happen in government, and by some crazy chain of events the dumbasses in government put a hold on the Constitution or go for some power grab, and by another crazy turn of events, the military and police don't revolt, and we actually have to fight our own in the streets, I'd be perfectly happy to have Joe Sixpack and his Remington 30-06 backing me up.