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In reply to the discussion: IT'S. THE. GUNS. [View all]vkkv
(3,384 posts)There are no comparisons to be made with those examples.
Unless American people are threatened by extreme hardships like famine, widespread torture or worse -Americans will never actually revolt. As long as most Americans have okay low wage jobs controlled by mega-corporations, their iPhone works okay, Chicken Nuggets are still plentiful and even still buried in debt, there will not be any kind of "revolution". Gun owners like the fantasy, but it's not going to happen. Corporations and out gov't will bend just enough to keep the people from any tipping point.
We lost in Vietnam because we as a nation chose not to SUSTAIN THE WAR! A good choice btw.. That was the reason we got out. Too many voters were against it. Haven't you read that? Surely you knew that.. It also didn't help that we came from across the Pacific, too.
The South nearly won the Civil War only because both sides were comparably armed and both sides lived on this continent. Give one side better weapons and the other would have lost.
Native Americans could not beat European invaders mostly because of weapons, sure diseases worked against them, but it was the more powerful weapons. Native Americans could not stop the U.S. forces.