Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:56:15 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason C. Wells), fpawlak@execpc.com, drifter@stratos.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? Message-ID: <199806290054.RAA08147@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 17:05:24 PDT." <199806290005.RAA00896@hub.freebsd.org>
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In message <199806290005.RAA00896@hub.freebsd.org>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote : } Jason C. Wells wrote: } > I feel that a rag tag militia that has heart and the support of the } > population is incredibly difficult to defeat. I have heard commanders of } > the South East Asian theater make this statement. } } an insurgency supported by the local population against a } visibly distinct opposing force is formidable, indeed. } those characteristics do not and would not obtain in the USA. } } > I feel that an auto loading rifle is sufficient for the purpose of } > opposing tyranny. This is a personal opinion. } } well, i beg to differ. please speak to some veterans about } arty and its affects on infantry. (one hint: arty kills } more infantry than *anything* else, sometimes more than all } other weapons combined). One angle not (apparently) being considered is that if the local population is armed and unwilling to capitulate, the government would either have to go find something else to do, or start killing people outright, which certainly carries more of a political pricetag than, say, waltzing into a neighborhood and arresting dozens of unarmed people. This "ups the ante", so to speak, to keep the government (or any aggressor) at least a little honest. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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