I'm sorry, but there's no way that a few people on your block, or even a few thousand people in your city are gonna take down the local SWAT team or national guard.  It's just not going to happen.  

 

But if you want to go down the way the Branch Davidians did, or those guys at Ruby Ridge, go for it. 

 

The government still fears the people so long as we still have the ability to vote.  Yes, the current situation is corrupted to the point that we are all frustrated.  The problem is that we're divided as to how to fix it.

 

The first step is to see what the actual problem is.  

 

Remember what happened in Egypt?  They took out that government by protesting, not by all the guns they had.  If you get enough people to protest, you don't need the violence.  

 

Serisoulsy, have you ever thought through what would happen if a group tried to take out the US government by force?  It would not happen.  The media would paint them as crazy lunatics and terrorists.  The vast majority of people would buy into that.  And then, the government would roll right over them.  It wouldn't be pretty.  Instead, organize, and go out and vote.  

 

We potentially have the ability to revolutionize the political system every 2 years...   I think we should appreciate that.  Now if we had a situation where the government decided to do away with voting, then I can see the need to look at other avenues.  But again, a peaceful protest of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, would be far more effective then grabbing your small arms (that's what assault weapons and hand guns would be considered) to try and take back the government by force.  A government that invests trillions of dollars into fighting wars.

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