You are wrong. Freedom was won with muzzleloading matchlocks, snaplocks, flintlocks and so on long before breechloaders were developed. It wasn't until after the America Civil War that our own army was supplied with breech loaders. I'm not necessarily pro gun, not an assault rifle or open carry guy, but history is history. I have read the lament of 14th century knight about how guns have put commoners on a level with him. This happened and is not some agenda statement.
Freedom was won with muzzleloading matchlocks, snaplocks, flintlocks
Fighting against a government which was itself only armed with muzzle loaders.
To fight your government these days you would need a lot more than light arms. You would need aircraft, warships, heavy weapons, tanks, armoured cars, missiles and possibly tactical nukes. And your government fighting an insurrection is not limited by the Geneva convention. It can use chemical weapons and other weapons banned in war against its own civilians.
It's not going to happen unless you're all suicidal.
I'm not advocating anything except not being helpless. I do suspect a government that doesn't trust its citizens. And I do wish some liberals would start standing up once in awhile. I believe to be evil and violence prone. I'll challenge you a bit more. Ever since Vietnam I've declared myself anti war, pacifist and non violent. And I am but I also a family man and feel I have a duty to defend my wife and daughter and, for that matter, any hapless fellow man threatened with violence. In this my own philosophy doesn't apply. After I got out of the service and started college I tried to be a hippy, but soon realized that, as much as I might want it to be, the hippy world vision was fantasy. Dream what you will but you also have to deal with reality.
You are wrong. Freedom was won with muzzleloading matchlocks, snaplocks, flintlocks and so on long before breechloaders were developed. It wasn't until after the America Civil War that our own army was supplied with breech loaders. I'm not necessarily pro gun, not an assault rifle or open carry guy, but history is history. I have read the lament of 14th century knight about how guns have put commoners on a level with him. This happened and is not some agenda statement.
Fighting against a government which was itself only armed with muzzle loaders.
To fight your government these days you would need a lot more than light arms. You would need aircraft, warships, heavy weapons, tanks, armoured cars, missiles and possibly tactical nukes. And your government fighting an insurrection is not limited by the Geneva convention. It can use chemical weapons and other weapons banned in war against its own civilians.
It's not going to happen unless you're all suicidal.
Edited: something for clarity.
History is full of revolts. Weapons have never made it unappealing!
Which arose way past the medieval period and from a country, England that had a long period of stability and education and was a fair distance away.
You planning on getting into an arms race with your own government? I'm pretty sure I know who'd win, or more likely, who'd lose.
I'm not advocating anything except not being helpless. I do suspect a government that doesn't trust its citizens. And I do wish some liberals would start standing up once in awhile. I believe to be evil and violence prone. I'll challenge you a bit more. Ever since Vietnam I've declared myself anti war, pacifist and non violent. And I am but I also a family man and feel I have a duty to defend my wife and daughter and, for that matter, any hapless fellow man threatened with violence. In this my own philosophy doesn't apply. After I got out of the service and started college I tried to be a hippy, but soon realized that, as much as I might want it to be, the hippy world vision was fantasy. Dream what you will but you also have to deal with reality.