From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: Gun Control: A modern, REALISTIC view.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 11:03:01 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

davidw@cie.uoregon.edu (David Weingarten) writes:

>>and then my wife will use a common 9mm pistol to kill you while you're
>>sleeping. ever heard of guerilla warefare? -that- is what would
>>happen, not a full out military conflict.

>Get real!  Do you honestly think you'd be able to get NEAR enough
>to anybody of any importance to shoot them?  Forget it!

Of course.  I can put a bullet inside a 1 foot circle at 1000 yards.
And I'm nowhere near a world class shot and don't have particularly 
super equipment.  That is more than enough to pick off any VIP outside the 
perimeter of security.  This would be done with a match grade bolt
action rifle, a shooting iron that has never been suggested to be banned.

Beyond that, when the time came to take out a VIP, I would have the 
luxury of surprise, and the choice of the time and the place.  Think
of it this way, child.  If a nutcase with a .22 pistol could get
to Reagan, you can bet your ass someone who knows what he's doing
can get to whomever he wants to.

>Again, the military has much better technology than you could ever
>come up with.  They could pick people off in the middle of the night
>and you'd never know what happened.  They HAVE secure communications,
>you don't.  They have intelligence forces that could figure out 
>who's doing what, and they have the special attack forces to take
>out every one of them.

You, of course, make the common neophyte mistake of presuming a 
united military.  When the civil war comes, the military will be anything
but united.  Rebel forces within the military will not only disrupt 
all the things you place so much faith in, they will make weapons
systems available to the rebels.  I suggest military weapons will be 
much more evenly distributed than you are capable of imagining.  
The rebels won't need much.  A single squadron of FB-111s equipped 
with smart bombs could decapitate the head of the dragon with one
pass across DC.  The war could very well be over before it starts.

>It always depresses me to find that people are actually so 
>self-deceived as to think they could overcome something as formidable
>as the US Military.  

It always depresses me to run across someone so ignorant of history
that he totally ignores it.  You should drop back only as far
as your daddy's era and examine Viet Nam to see how faulty your
logic is.  If a country full of peasants using little more than
AK-47s and improvised munitions could defeat the US government, what in 
the world could ever make you think Americans could not do it?  If
a war 8000 miles away could so divide the citizenry and turn the 
citizens against the government, how in the world could you deny the 
same thing would happen if the US Army tried to use its might
to supress a popular insurrection?

Come back and talk after you crack the history book a bit.

John

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