"How Do People Believe that 2nd Amendment protect the 1st........"

 Yeah, I shamelessly clipped this off Quora, it was a good response, it has been discussed amongst us bloggers for several years, especially when we hear from the lefties " you can't fight the Apache Helicopter and the atom bomb" or some such nonsense...Our response is, "we don't fight them, we fight the logistics, and you do know that pilot that fired that hellfire into that house.....betcha he has a family....you think that family will be safe?, you lefties use violence like a volume knob to suit your political purposes, to us it is "on-off" switch, we flick that switch, it will make the genocide in Rwanda look like a kindergarten spat, so be careful what you wish for.

To read the article where I pulled the meme from is "Here", yes I wrote it back in 2019 after President's first impeachment.

How do people that believe the Second Amendment protects the 1st, and ignore the fact that no amount of firepower they possess would protect them from the US military if their country became dictatorial?

Troy Becker

Author has 2.9K answers and 1M answer viewsUpdated Nov 25

Are ya sure?

Ever seen this guy?

Viet Cong. They were the guerilla forces on the side of these guys:

The USA and those guys fought a war. The USA was better equipped, funded, trained… better everything.

I assume you know who won.

In more recent history, ever see this guy?

He was a Taliban fighter, on the side of…

… well, uh, more Taliban. They were fighting the US for 20+ years. And the USA outmatched those guys WAY more than they outmatched anyone in Vietnam.

Remind me, who runs Afghanistan today?

But what about in America? What would resistance look like in America? I know, I know, the meme is the “muh-lish-uh” is entirely this guy…

And yeah, I too roll my eyes when someone like that talks about tyranny and resisting it. I, too, wouldn’t even trust him with logistics supplies. If they involved food, anyway.

But.

What about this guy?

I pulled that picture from an Amazon movie about American hunters. Do you think he knows his way around the back country and similar to Viet Cong or Taliban? Think he’s a good shot? Think he might know a thing or two about tactics, or could at least learn relatively quickly? Something tells me he does, is, and could.

But that’s not all.

What about this guy?

His name is John Lovell. You may want to mock him for all his tactical gear, because who does he think he is, what a poser… Well, he’s a retired Army Ranger.

And make no mistake, I’m not speaking for him. But IF tyranny really hit the US and IF he were to get involved- again, not speaking for him, but IF- I know whose side he’d take. I can guarantee, if he got involved, whose side he’d take.

It wouldn’t be tyranny.

But that’s still not all!

American soldiers- the ones who do the fighting, not the political brass or the desk jockeys- tend to overwhelmingly swing one direction, politically. And I can tell you this: push come to shove, a lot of them aren’t going to tyrannize their fellow citizens. They may at first, a little, because circumstance and nuance and confusion and so on.

But give it some time. See what happens.

Mark Milley, here?

You’re right. That coward will bend the knee to tyranny in no time. And yes, I do call him a coward, because he already bent that knee. For nothing more than career advancement during peacetime. Any military guy who publicly states he’s “concerned with white rage” because it’s the woke talking point of the day and the current administration, well, they’ll turn on the people for sure. I’ll grant you that.

But this guy’s nothing without these guys here:

They do the actual fighting. Maybe some will also bend the knee. But many are going to feel the way Mr. Lovell up there feels. I promise you that.

And this guy…

… he’s going to be more than happy to work with them. He wanted to be left alone, but someone brought tyranny to his land.

And in the off chance those army guys up there didn’t bring their rifles when they deserted their newly-turned-completely-tyrannical leaders? Good news! He’s already stocked up on extra rifles and tons of ammo.

Go ahead, parrot the stupid line about “we have nukes and F-15s!” (that was Biden who said that, YouTube it) and think that matters. We can even pretend that the F-15 pilots will all happily drop bombs on their fellow Americans without hesitation, too. Let’s grant that just for sake of argument.

Okay. F-4 Phantoms didn’t stop the NVA and Viet Cong. Twenty years of Black Hawk helicopters dropping Rangers and Seals to conduct raids and the C-130s dropping countless bombs and US army occupying every major city and the Predator drones assassinating countless jihadis and on and on and on… we had F-22s by that point along with F-15s, F-16s, A-10s, the F-35s were rolling out… well, all that didn’t stop people who literally often couldn’t even do jumping jacks or count. I’m not joking.

Behold, the ultimate tool of tyranny!

And, apparently this.

Truth is, an F-15 doesn’t occupy a street corner.

This guy does.

These guys are who you call to do that…

… but even these guys just might end up siding with, well, this guy…

… if it came down to it. Because, frankly between, say, Milley and fatty up there? Bottom line, fatty isn’t trying to bring tyranny to anyone.

But worry not, all you minutemen, the soldiers will have that guy stay home. Maybe instead the soldiers turning against tyranny will coordinate some guerilla style raids with his best buddy growing up down below, and toss in some training while they’re at it.

And believe me, the odds are that guy with the tripod can already shoot way better than most soldiers, let alone those who stay, let alone enlist or respond to a draft after tyranny arrives.

So, god forbid we have to find out, but considering the success of the Taliban, the Viet Cong, the obvious reluctance of most American boots-on-the-ground to tyrannize their own… who would you put your money on?

I know my bet.