Kenneth Brown
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Re: Help an Aussie to understand......
I beleive that there are a few people down in Southeast Asia that would disagree with that statement. How do you suppose the govt. is going to field the troops when the whole country is against the govt.?I agree that used to be the case, but nowadays the government has many, many more effective and lethal weapons in its arsenal. There is no amount of guns today that could ever keep the government in check. Maybe 200 years ago, or even 100, but not today. Look at Iraq.(not meaning to be political) The insurgents are very, very well armed, but don't stand a chance against the coalition in a head-to-head fight. We kill something like 100 of them to every 1 of us they kill in combat. They point a gun, we point a missle. In todays society, the only thing a gun is good for is protection against someone else with a gun.