OP u realize u sound like a nutcase yea? Ure paranoid to the extreme! Calm da hell down, ur pea shooters aren't gonna do jack all against tanks & fighter jets. Its 2013, not the 18th century!
In the middle east most everyone is armed, but it really hasn't made the government fear anyone. Saddam used biological weapons, tanks, & fighter jets to bring the kurds to their knees. Small arms sure as hell aren't helping the rebels in syria against the governments tanks & fighter jets. The most important thing to resist oppression is proper legislation & laws that keep power checked.
I have seen this argument made many times and it is extremely short sighted. You mention Syria as an example of how their rifles aren't helping them against their gov'ts tanks and jets. But at the same time you fail to mention Libya and Egypt where the people there successfully overthrew their gov'ts who were armed with, not surprising, tanks and jets. Yes, our tanks and jets are much more advanced than theirs, but it still shows that a people can defeat a superior armed gov't. Also, history is frought with examples of a superior and more advanced force losing to one less so.
In addition, unless such an event were to be fought in a vaccum, numerous other countries and organizations would supply the American people with the arms and supplies they need to fight the gov't, just like what happened in Egypt and Libya. Thats not even including the thousands of Americans already in the military who would "defect" to the side of the peopel bringing along all the jets and tanks they could.
The 2nd Amendment is there as a first line of defense, to gives us a chance in the initial days of a revolution. If the gov't decides to escalate the conflict by using jets and tanks, the people, and the rest of the globe, would respond in kind.
When it comes down to it, I would much rather start off a thoerized revoltion being armed with a rifle or handgun, than a knife or rocks.
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