>Does anyone here seriously think their AR stands a chance against a Hell-fire missile?
As someone who spent time in Iraq as an infantryman, yes. I think a nation full of people armed with ARs are FAR more formidable than all of the fancy laser-guided, high-explosive, toys that the mil-ind-complex have shat out in the last 30 years.
If everyone in a city were armed, you wouldn't be able to enter the city. The drones and missiles can only do so much damage before you have to send in the ground troops to actually enforce law, grab weapons, detain insurgents, etc.
As long as the people are armed, the will of the state can not be enforced on the people. Do you not realize that we got our asses handed to us in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and so on? Anywhere where we had to deal with a faceless insurgency, we got fucked hard.
As long as the people are armed, all we have to do is sit back and pick off the agents of the state one by one. We don't need to be organized. We don't need leaders. All it takes is some arms, ammunition, and being fed the fuck up with an oppressive government. And if the military should ever decide to occupy our own land, there will be an unending supply of people who get more and more pissed off every day.
All the technology and intelligence in the world can't stop someone who finally said, "enough is enough" and decides to take up arms. The only thing the insurgency has to do is make the occupation bleed a little bit every day until they have no blood left.
THIS is why we have a 2nd amendment. It's not to have comparable weapons, it's to have enough firepower to give the (would be) occupying force a run for their money, in effect, making an occupation not worth while for any party involved.
So yes, I DO think I have a chance against anything they throw at me...because I'm not alone. And because my death would only start the fire inside of others.
Get fucked, bootlicker.