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MSgt Gerald Orvis
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I fail to see what your comment has to do with Beto O'Rourke's proposals, as reported in the news article. I've always considered Robert O'Rourke as a phony Irish-American who uses the Latino name "Beto" to attract the Latino vote in his El Paso district. He is also a far-left crackpot whose gun control proposals are not based in "commonsense" reality. Assuming he could get what he proposed and bans "assault rifles", who is going to go out and collect them? Not him. There will be a lot of non-compliance and the cops (and maybe the military) will have to go out there to forcibly make people give up their guns, and I'm confident there will be armed resistance to that. Once some cops (and military) get killed/wounded, how eager will they be to continue what the left wants? Based on the number of local law enforcement agencies that currently refuse to enforce anti-gun laws in places like New York and California, how many cops will actually go out there for this purpose? Probably only big city departments. And as far as his proposed "buy-back" - how can the government buy back what they didn't sell? In local efforts of this type, the only guns that get turned in are junkers that aren't worth what the government is paying for them. What O'Rourke is doing is saying anything he thinks will attract votes to revive his failed presidential campaign.
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SGT Edward Wilcox
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Most of those 60 million dead were the cause of aerial bombings. If you think having semi or fully automatic weapons could have stopped that, you're delusional. And if you think arming the Jewish population of Europe would have protected them from the armies if Germany, you're worse than delusional.
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Maj John Bell
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Can you cite examples of well-armed civilian populations being overwhelmed by invading forces; or being crushed by the politically elite of their own countries, prior to being disarmed?
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SGT Edward Wilcox
SGT Edward Wilcox
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Maj John Bell Can you cite any examples of well armed civilian populations that repelled any Invaders without the assistance of a professional army? Or any populace that wasn't charmed by the politically elite, negating the need to crush the populace? WWII would not have been changed significantly if the general population of the different countries were better armed. It is historical fact that Hitler actually loosened gun laws in the years before the war. Not that that help them defend against an invading army.
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Maj John Bell
Maj John Bell
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SGT Edward Wilcox -
_Well-armed population defeats foreign invaders/occupiers
Afghanistan vs the Soviets 1979-1989
Algerian War of Independence 1954
The Egyptian Revolution of 1922
Indonesian National Revolution of 1945-1949

_Armed Civilians defeat a professional Army
Russian revolution of 1905
Communist Chinese revolution of 1945-1949
The German Revolution of 1918-1919
Guatemalan Revolution of 1944
Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1906
Iranian Revolution of 1979
Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920
The Nicaraguan Revolution 1961-1978
Romanian Revolution of 1989
Xinhai Revolution of 1911.

Now back to my question... Can you cite examples of well-armed civilian populations being overwhelmed by invading forces; or being crushed by the politically elite of their own countries, prior to being disarmed?
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MAJ Byron Oyler
MAJ Byron Oyler
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Unfortunately you are wrong. A majority of the civilian deaths came at the hands of the Germans and Japanese and they did not do large scale of bombing of any magnitude. Aerial bombings were primarily by the US and England of Germany and late in the war, Japan. The killings the Japanese did in China and the Germans from France to Soviet Union were large in numbers and Schindler's List presented it well, it was the Gestapo and SS that rounded many Jews up, not large Army groups rolling in on half-tracks and Panzers. The difference between putting up a good fight and being herded into a railcar is huge. There are three types of people in this world, sheep, sheep dogs, and wolves. The wolves love sheep like you that would just give all your tools away to defend yourself. I am ok with that as there are sheepdogs to keep you safe but please do not fool yourself into a false sense of security by taking my semi-auto rifles. None of us can protect you if you take our tools to even try away.
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