[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.
Craighead, Scot D
craighead.scot at vectorscm.com
Thu Mar 28 17:26:14 UTC 2002
>I suppose. Most of what I see on Fox News is stories about
>rescuing cats from trees or clueless reporters asking dumb
>questions. Maybe I'm just thinking of FOX 49.
I meant the Fox News Channel.
>Okay, so consider the practically of this these days. What good
>would half the male population carrying small arms be against
>the size of weapons the military has now? Not much, I think.
>The balance of military power has shifted considerably since WWI.
This is a common arguement so let's consider it. I think that the
population of the United States is about 360 million. Someone can correctly
me if I'm wrong, but it's at least in the neighborhood. About half are
male. That's 180 million. We choose the number 90%, so 90% of 180 million
is 162 million. I don't know the number of poeple in the US military at the
moment, but I do know it is well under 1 million. Lets say 500,000. That's
probably close. So the rebels would out number the military by about 324 to
1. You can get more accurate numbers, but it wouldn't come out much
different. I think that the rebels would win. Second consider that the
military is supplied by the citizens and without that, they would not be
resupplied.
Also, consider the oaths taken by military personel. I don't know every
word, but it starts with something like, "I will protect and defend the
constitution of the United States against all enimies both foreign and
domestic." This is first and above all else. Next theu pledge to obey the
lawful orders of the president and the officer appointed by him. This is
key. This is secondary to defending the constitution. This is all put in
place so that if the president or some other official were to declare the
constitution invalid, the military would be obligated to regard that person
as a domestic enemy and take him out. As long as the president is acting
within the scope of the constitution, the military is obligated to obay him.
So the same event that would maybe cause 90% of the men in this country to
rebel would most likely require the military to rebel with them.
You may say that people just read the oath and don't pay attention or care
about what they are saying, but I say that most do. Certainly the officers
do as they have a great deal of training in this before they take the oath.
The second amendment is an important part of the constitution put in place
to ensure our freedom.
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