This is what people need to be shown when they say, "your guns are useless against the US military!"
The military isn't the threat. The pencil pushing authoritarians are. The guy coming down to your house or your business to force compliance from you is the threat. That guy might have a gun, and he might even have some security, but if there's a reasonable chance that a large number of the people he tries to boss around greet him with a gun and the resolve to use it, well ... I just don't see how Mr. Pencil Pusher is going is going to be very enthusiastic to go impose his will on uncooperative citizens.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
This is what people need to be shown when they say, "your guns are useless against the US military!"
The military isn't the threat. The pencil pushing authoritarians are. The guy coming down to your house or your business to force compliance from you is the threat. That guy might have a gun, and he might even have some security, but if there's a reasonable chance that a large number of the people he tries to boss around greet him with a gun and the resolve to use it, well ... I just don't see how Mr. Pencil Pusher is going is going to be very enthusiastic to go impose his will on uncooperative citizens.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn