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XNavyNuke
12-08-2010, 11:49 AM
Do we still need the Second Amendment? (http://sundial.csun.edu/2010/12/do-we-still-need-the-second-amendment/)

Another good example of why university newspaper editors make bad policy makers. Journalism requires neither rigorous mathematics, geography, nor history backgrounds.


Even if a militia the size of Spartacus’ were armed to the teeth, without air support the U.S. military would mow them down like grass. That’s not to say people haven’t tried. In 1993, cult leader David Koresh and the Branch Davidians exercised their Second Amendment right to fight back against the “tyrannical” government by murdering four ATF agents who were attempting to execute a search warrant of their ranch.

Oh, where to begin. Lets do the numbers first. Spartacus' army was about 60k and operated in an area of about 100 km2. For a modern comparison, the original Viet Minh was about 90k and operated in an area about 3x that of Spartacus, were under-equipped, and operated (some would say successfully) against modern western forces. As Operation Noble Eagle revealed, the U.S. no longer has the capacity to maintain CAP's over its own country for more than a couple of weeks. Those jet engines need maintenance and even with short, secure supply lines Noble Eagle was rapidly scaled back to provide nominal cover only to "key" cities. To maintain overseas air units, CAP coverage of U.S. skies, and CAS of a Spartacus-sized insurgency spread across the country, is an effort in futility. Branch Davidians, Ruby Ridge, etc. were not insurgencies against the U.S. no matter how this ignoramus chooses to rewrite history.


It’s time for the Second Amendment to go. It’s time to empower our states and communities to make decisions on this issue that are crucial to our security.

TSA would just love that!

XNN

Toureg89
12-08-2010, 12:44 PM
David koresh didnt murder anyone. his religious followers used firearms in self defense.

why were the ATF agents raiding his home when koresh offered to allow them peacefully in his compound weeks earlier for them to inspect all his firearms?

peacefully walking in isnt enough. they have to call out their raid teams in full gear and with machine guns, and execute a perfect raid while painting koresh as an enemy of the government so that they can divert attention to why they need more funding because "theres just too many crazy nuts out there willing to engage the government".

if the average citizen raided a persons home on the excuse that they thought their neighbor had illegal guns, and the home owner killed them, nobody would complain.

but when cops raid peoples houses instead of accepting open invitations to peacefully search homes, there's no problem with that.

Pericles
12-08-2010, 03:46 PM
Bring out the barf smiley. Not only the journalism degree is weak, but the education system in general has died.

Merk
12-14-2010, 01:12 PM
The "journalist" who wrote this is going to learn all about the need for the 2a when their bankrupt state stops sending welfare checks and things get "real". CSUN is in the middle of SoCal hell. When the SHTF this person will die.

oyarde
12-15-2010, 03:34 PM
A university that takes public money that does not want to obey the supreme law of the land , the Constitution. Paper gets detention with author and no public money until they come up with an article in support of the first ten amendments .