You can't fight the government
Political, Guns ·Sunday March 21, 2010 @ 18:57 EDT (link)
To anyone with "lock and load", "I'm ready to fight", etc. rhetoric that think they can defeat the federal government: this isn't 1776. The Second Amendment was written that the people might have the same armaments as the government, but it has been infringed so far and so frequently that we think we've won a victory when our overlords give us permission to keep semi-automatic handguns in our houses. The intent was that anyone that can afford a cannon (tank) should be able to have one (or go in on a group buy).
Got nukes? Got artillery? How about air support? Missiles? Tanks? Heck, even automatic weapons or grenades? Probably not. The brainwashed military will cheerfully turn any armed resistance into red mist without breaking a sweat; they've done it before (so-called American Civil War, Japanese-American internment in WWII, the Bonus Army, Waco, Ruby Ridge, and many smaller incidents of government kidnap and murder). In most of the country civilians can't even own automatic weapons. Lock and load all you want, they'll flatten us without a care in the world, and the liberals will spin it for the news as putting down of evil racist terrorists and the sheep will smile and nod and accept their soma ration from mother government.
The US has apparently never invaded a country with nukes, so nukes are what a seceding state or other territory will need as a deterrent. The best service an individual can do for freedom is to become an expert in nuclear physics and similar disciplines; but fissionable material (and most other ingredients, for that matter) will still be hard to come by (perhaps easier with the power of a state behind you). One solution is nukes; the other is winning hearts and minds (Molyneux's approach). I wonder which will happen first.
