Might wanna check the actual combat statistics there bud. Shit Vietnam was also a professional, well-supplied army with a decade of combat experience against the French and massive infrastructure advantages.

This is home turf, not foreign soil that's attempting to be occupied peacefully. Plus, you'd have 50% of a country, give or take, readily willing to turn you in or attack you themselves, and 0 logistics infrastructure.

It's amazing to me this take is still common with people when it's so easily laughed at.

If you wanna go hide in the woods with your buddies, you can do that without trying to overthrow the government.

I think the more important point is that people form militias to protect themselves, and carrying a weapon means considering bad thoughts and being aware of them, the same way that an ex drug user or addict practicing abstinence consistently needs to exert a degree of self discipline.

If you ask me, owning a gun just makes violent assholes have a shorter fuse. Think about it, have you ever carried a stick or a knife and thought that carrying it meant something? Now you can be more assertive, but the risk of accidentally shooting people or just flying off the handle and shooting someone suddenly becomes a real risk.

A great test would be to give recent licensed gun owners three rubber bullets to use. When you get around to firing it after losing your shit you'll know that you really lost your cool.

We absolutely had the military capability to wipe Vietnam and Afghanistan off the goddamn map and delete their populations and wildlife from existence if ordered to do so. The politicians back home said no, and made us withdraw. We have thousands of nuclear reentry vehicles standing ready, and we are trained to set condition 1SQ when ordered, no questions asked, without knowing the target package. I challenge you to survive a hundred Hiroshimas per warhead, times several thousand.