Quote Originally Posted by Bert View Post
No, but I'd rather have a gun to fight back then to be made to bend over and take it.
Sure, but I bet they're real happy that you're content with getting ripped apart by a Cobra helicopter while emptying a clip of your handgun versus it being a fair fight. Your Constitutional right means nothing in that situation.

Quote Originally Posted by Bert View Post
and yes they have the ability but, they wold never dream of doing to a western nation as long as they know their citizens can rise up and do some major damage to their precious infrastructure.
Isn't it a little weird that there's no guarantee that such a matter can't be prevented or handled internally rather than relying on intervention from the outside world? Why should we have to rely on other countries to prevent our government from smurfing us up the ass when that capability was built into our Constitution? It was intended to be self-correcting. The whole underlying principle of a democratic republic is that we can impose peaceful revolutions every four years with our votes. When our votes lead to nothing but the same two parties, who openly work together to shape the country in the way they see fit, we lose the power to actually change anything. And we can't change anything with violence, either, because we'd have no way to mount an assault. We're stuck.