On 1/31/2011 11:58 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> And you are missing mine. Russia didn't want to wipe out everything
>> and start over, neither did the US.
>
> And if there's a revolution in the USA, you think the US government will
> want to wipe out every US citizen and city and start over?
>
I think, if such a thing where to happen its going to be a stupidly 
small number starting it, and they will get their asses kicked so damn 
fast all the people with guns won't even have a chance to find 
ammunition for them. Which means, any *real* threat, where having lots 
of people armed, isn't going to be something that internal.

I am also pretty sure of two other things 1) If there is need of a 
revolution, it will be because things changed slowly, without people 
paying attention, and 2) the sort of people that, right now, actually 
keep talking about one are the ones that we would have to revolt 
against, if they ever successfully pushed a revolution. And, even people 
stupid enough to allow someone to erase their freedoms over a few 
hundred years are probably **not** stupid enough to follow the wackos 
that keep yapping about one right now.

In short, it will either be too late, by the time someone decides we 
need one, or it will be entirely the sort of people the government would 
be justified in doing something about, in neither case is it going to be 
either in my life time, nor anyone I would give a shit about being armed 
enough to fight the government. And, purely from the practical 
standpoint, despite our willingness to give crazies a voice, the US has, 
in general, rarely backslid into a state any worse than we previously 
found our way out of. Even some of the recent infringements (like some 
of the wire tap laws) are neither as bad as those already implemented in 
the past 200 years, nor have, when those things have existed, they ever 
*lasted* past the next period of relative peace, when people started 
asking, "Why are we still doing this?"

I might not trust many of the fools in government, but I do trust the 
system, in as much as it lends itself to progressing, far more than 
regressing. With revolutions... you don't have a damn clue what you will 
end up with. And, that should scare rational people.

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