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Let me preface this by stating I'm not a big fan of guns personally, but let's modify that question a bit to say: "What would you do in their place if faced with an angry and ridiculously armed populous?"... well I'd probably do my best to stay off their radar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c...

Sometimes I think the powers that be are poking an enormous sleeping dog with a stick just for giggles.

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

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.

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 (and, of course, successful terrorist acts over the last decade) demonstrated, low tech is still Good Enough for a lot of purposes.

Exactly. It's guerilla warfare. The military would be next to useless in a situation like that. Not to mention morale issues.

It's funny that the US has twice the amount of guns per capita compared to Switzerland, when Switzerland is the country that demands that all conscpripts in their militia keep a gun at their home.

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