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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Look at the numbers of Vietnamese who died and ask yourself if you're ready to die in those numbers.
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Even the Vietnamese haven't done so
against their own Government, which even now can't match the power of the US in the 1960s. There's a huge difference between fighting (or wanting to fight) against foreign aggression and fighting against your own Government/people.
Likewise, the US Government wasn't fighting for its own survival in Vietnam, but it would be against a domestic insurgency.
The Government has everything on its side, firepower, intelligence, surveillance, propaganda. Timothy McVeigh isn't considered a patriot by most Americans, is he? A revolution wouldn't stand a chance without mass defections from the military, and even then it would be a long drawn out civil war that would take the US back to the stone age. There aren't many Americans who'd want to do that, and understandably so.
The Second Amendment has nothing to do with defending against tyranny, and everything to do with maintaining profits for gun companies.