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- Dec 24, 2018
Lindsay wasn't even talking about armed insurrection. He was referring to a disaster where the police are unable or unwilling to protect civilians- like what we saw last summer with the riots. Anyone who lived through that would have to be an unbelievably diehard leftist not to want at least some protection.Someone clearly doesn't know that if there is one thing tanks are horrible at is urban warfare. They are mobile fortressess, but they play much better in open fields where they can maneuver their way much easily than in a city where they will be much slower and clumsy. It makes considerable more sense to go in with far more maneuverable armored cars than with a slow as fuck tank that needs to be constanly babysitted by a squad of troops or else you risk on the enemy disabling the fucker or capturing the thing.
And maybe these people don't know what guerrilla tactics are, and even if they won't work that well on a suburban neighbourhood, if the inhabitants play their cards right and have their tools properly made, they can put up a decent fight against almost anyone trying to go in.
But, yes, Bob and his gung-ho friends don't get that putting down an armed insurrection in the USA would be the worst of Stalingrad and Vietnam put together. They don't get it because they won't be the ones out there, dealing with ambushes, punji stake traps, caltrops, land mines, snipers, IEDs, etc. They want someone else to do it. I'm sure if you gave them the chance, they'd happily swagger out there with a gun, but the moment someone started shooting back, they'd have a mental breakdown on the spot.