• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If it turns into a shooting war between the US military and its own civilian populace, apart from the multitude of other unimaginable horrors, you would undoubtedly see countries trying to stoke the flames and make the conflict more involved and expensive for the United States. Hell, I’m pretty well convinced that it’s happening right now; if you were China or Russia or any other hostile foreign actor, you would much rather the United States destroy itself from within than try to confront us directly.

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      24 hours ago

      Modern day “people vs state” uprising are over in a matter of days.

      It would not last long enough for any external support to stoke any flames.

      Unless it turns into an actual civil war, military vs military instead of civilian vs military. Sure, then you’d have lots of foreign involvement, but civilians having guns would barely affect the eventual outcome if at all. Civilians vs military these days is hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby tier, in the USA it’d be even more asymmetrical and brutal given the state of your military.

      Ask the survivors of the MOVE bombing how guns would have helped them, now add 40 years of military industrial complex and technological progress to the equation. You’ll get a mental picture of reality.