Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:DT. wrote:Paphitis wrote:Get Real! wrote:I had a lot of chats with many of these pot-bellied, trigger happy far-right American idiots on LiveLeak, and they were proud to boast that they were gearing up for a full scale “civil war” as they called it, and I’d be like…
“Are you lot for real? Do you honestly think that the $50 junk rifles you bought at the funfair and the 200 odd rounds you’ve got at home are going to be enough for this so-called civil war?”And they would then remind that they were in their millions and thus had many guns and ammo!
So I’d then remind them that after 2-3 bursts their 200 odd rounds would be gone, their crappy rifles would either jam or burst at the seams from heat and explode in their faces, and that their better armed and better trained National Guard would wipe the floor with them picking them off from a mile away if needed, within a few days!
Their concept of how things would work and unfold in a coup are absolutely childish!
They are not preparing to fight their own military.
They have an inherit distrust of big governments overstepping their Mark and that fear dates back to their bloody civil way in the 19th century.
Oh and there are hardly militias. A few clowns on the dark web shooting tin cans on a tree trunk is hardly a militia. They just live their guns.
Some people like you actually want some of the southerners to go on a rampage but for over 100 years now successive US Governments have managed to control them. To breach their 2nd amendment is something that can only provoke them.
To some Americans, that is breach of their their protected freedoms and Government over reach,
Was in Hamilton, Montana a few years ago...got shown barracks of a militia group. To those of us that have done military service they’d see that there was no difference between the equipment, space and personnel that they had in there to our camps.
What Militia Group? Are you referring to the National Giard. Yes they are well equipped even with A10s and F-16s. Enough firepower to pulverise many countries before we even get to the US Armed Forces.
But a private militia? That’s news to me. And with barracks even? Pull the other one DT.
Whilst separate from the US Forces it’s still heavily attached to them and just another way of putting trained soldiers in the reserves. Still controlled by the Pentagon.
Most are reservists that came from the US Forces. Not uncommon for US Airline pilots being also members of the Aur National Guard where they have to go in every so often to maintain their skills in an F-16 or A10
Today, as defined by the Militia Act of 1903, the term "militia" is used to describe two classes within the United States:[8]
Organized militia – consisting of state militia forces; notably, the National Guard and Naval Militia.[9]
Unorganized militia – comprising the reserve militia: every able-bodied man of at least 17 and under 45 years of age, not a member of the National Guard or Naval Militia.[10]
A third militia is a state defense force. It is authorized by state and federal laws.[11
I would suggest the word militia in this context isn’t what you are alluding to.
It isn’t a bunch of misfits who have gone to a gun shop and bought themselves some guns and organized themselves in some ragbag “militia” group like you see in Mogadishu.
They are paramilitary groups organised by the Federal Government in the form of the US National Guard and the Coastguard. Abd by the states as part of their own National Guard such as the Texas National Gurad. All are predominately reservists or part timers who have resigned from the US Army, Marines, Navy or USAF.
They are still paid by the tax payer albeit as part time reservists.
They are not a right wing group of misfits who buy some guns over the counter.
They are almost a fully blown military force in their own right and are even better armed than most countries. Yes the Texas National Guard is armed and geared for war should the need arise but I think the reason why they do it is to keep reservists skilled in their soldiery in case the US is invaded one day by some Martians.