>This is an excellent example of good reasons for gun ownership.
The common argument against 2nd amendment is that the government has nukes. You cant overthrow the government with hunting rifles anymore. It's a valid point, you should only ever need guns to overthrow your government in times it has gotten too tyrannical. Said tyrannical government would likely freely nuke their own people.
An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground….to rule over the ashes.
-sun tzu
And if you followed the court cases. Some "insurrectionists" plead guilty to crimes. But all those that went to court are being found not-guilty. These people were all found on video being allowed in by police. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/matthew-marti...
If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq?
>If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq?
Yes I do think so. Nuclear weapons are a VERY powerful deterrence.
As we see, then instead of a primary name vs primary name war. It's now primary name vs minor, minor, minor, insurgency, minor.
Why did they never use nukes in middle east? Because they ratified the geneva protocol in 75 and can't use them.
Foreign vs Domestic consequences of using nukes is similar but not the same.
Can normal Chinese people upload these videos without getting blocked? Also, will technologies like starlink effectively remove CCP/govt control in these types of countries and create an environment for US influence?
Starlink needs local licensing for radio spectrum. Even if downlink may not require such licensing, uplink (from hand terminal to satellite) certainly does.
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[ 7.4 ms ] story [ 251 ms ] threadThe common argument against 2nd amendment is that the government has nukes. You cant overthrow the government with hunting rifles anymore. It's a valid point, you should only ever need guns to overthrow your government in times it has gotten too tyrannical. Said tyrannical government would likely freely nuke their own people.
An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground….to rule over the ashes. -sun tzu
Did you see what Biden had to say?: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-57590483 I'm not even American, but I know what the 2nd amendment says. Biden was not right there. Sure you need a license and some reasonable exceptions exist for your right to build bombs in the USA. Most people in the USA can build and own bombs. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/6jdgeu/are_y...
Americans can get https://tannerite.com/ delivered to your door... LOL I bet the mailman doesn't know.
Biden actively threatened to nuke the insurrectionists. Which maybe you haven't been following... Wikipedia doesn't even call it an insurrection anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_att...
And if you followed the court cases. Some "insurrectionists" plead guilty to crimes. But all those that went to court are being found not-guilty. These people were all found on video being allowed in by police. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/matthew-marti...
Then you have Biden saying to expect "real" food shortages: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/biden-say...
Yes I do think so. Nuclear weapons are a VERY powerful deterrence.
As we see, then instead of a primary name vs primary name war. It's now primary name vs minor, minor, minor, insurgency, minor.
Why did they never use nukes in middle east? Because they ratified the geneva protocol in 75 and can't use them.
Foreign vs Domestic consequences of using nukes is similar but not the same.