"If there are bigger pussies in the world than gun nuts, I don’t know who the fuck they are."

[pasto76]

60. These shooters always have more firepower than what I carried in Iraq

to the point where if we lost a few rounds during cleaning, or sometimes the round would push into the casing during our clearing procedures - whatever. We would turn in say 7 rounds. And the supply NCO would come by and plink out 7 rounds. Not 10. Not a single extra round was authorized above 210. Let me tell you how fast you can burn through 210 rounds when you need to. Like in a minute, including magazine changes.

More to the point, when I meet people like this they are comical to me. Even when DUers post "militarized police" they look like kids playing dress up. Also remember that "the military" are not drones. If I was called out and ordered to use force on citizens I would absolutely decide for myself if this was a lawful order, and for the greater good of this country and our people. I have already decided in 2003 in Iraq that I would rather be tried and sent to prison for insubordination or something else than murder. So any notion that a politician can snap their fingers and make us nazi storm troopers is ludicrous. But some kind of genuine illegal armed uprising. Well, its been said many times before, "expect to be efficiently fragged tagged and bagged" by even a modestly armed platoon of infantry.

The greatest protection this country has in modern times is not an armed populace, it is a volunteer citizen military that guards you while you sleep.