Ah right, so explain how a group of even 50 well trained individuals, (no military careers among them, because thatâs the point) is going to stop the US Military in the mountains of Appalachia? Between satellite feeds, drones, missile, artillery batteries, and armored vehicles like the MRAP, what exactly is an armed insurrection going to do? I would remind you that, over 100 years ago the us military was already good enough to win a war where nearly half the US went to war with itself, as a second military, and lost. They were, more or less, equally armed as their opponents in terms of weapons (each individual engagement was decided by skill and numbers, not by what weapons they used) and the south were blockaded into surrender. With the reunification, and 100+ years since it has only gotten stronger, to say nothing of the entrance of the Atomic and Digital Ages.
If the us government wants to stomp on the US people by force, itâs had the capability for over 70 years now. Since that time a re-examination should have happened to either reaffirm the laws and ammendments set forth, or altered them. You canât reasonably say âthen the military should not have Xâ because that puts the country at a disadvantage on a world stage.
These ammendments were written when it took 30 seconds or more to reload a black powder cartridge. These ammendments were written when you couldnât send an object into orbit and hang there to watch other humans. It was written when slavery was codified and the norm. Since this document was written we have passed a dozen ammendments to it. Theres not âno way to change the second ammendmentâ thereâs only people willing to allow it to be changed. Nowadays we donât have issues with feeding colonies, or how to reach a gold rush in them-there mounâns. We live in a time where more people live in new york city than the founding fathers wrote the document to rule over as a country.
The second ammendment, among the others, is outdated for a different time. It was written to prevent something that, quite frankly, isnât an issue these days. At the time yeah it was all the rage to have yourself an Independance War because the governing country was oppressive. As was made apparent during the Civil War, and is true now - the average citizens uprising to overthrow the government for any reason wonât happen without military support anyway. And that means military hardware. You only get military hardware from defectors or thieves, neither of which are going to fight a us army base like itâs GTA to get ahold of it.
You bring up an interesting point about the Civil War and I want to ask before making a conclusion. Have there been times when the people âfighting against tyrannyâ were people that werenât backwards? (i.e. Wanted to keep slavery, Jan. 6 insurrectionists, etc.)
I suppose the answer would largely be No. Not because theyâre âbackwardsâ but because the scenario 2a is alleging is that the government is unpopular and brutal, and deposing it is actually the popular public sentiment, but the government stays in power because of the âarmyâ (as a whole combined navy/army because thatâs what they had at the time)
A 2a argument would be like saying the current state of china exists because the average citizen doesnât have a firearm.
It has happened https://capitolweekly.net/black-panthers-armed-capitol/
Any âmilitiaâ group like this is just going to get blown to bits by unmanned drones if it comes down to it.
Hypothetically speaking, the real path to resistance would be individuals figuring out ways to assassinate oligarchs and high ranking officials, and having enough success to instill fear in the rest of them.
That alone doesnât work because even well-meaning people will use the power of the position for their own benefit eventually. We have tried slaying the leaders for centuries, we need to go to the root and eliminate the reigns by which they hold power, but it can at times be a pragmatic act of self defense still.
