Originally Posted by
Skroe
Ask Al Qaeda how men with guns fair against Drones.
You know who develops the technology behind those things? Spoilers: Typically not NRA types.
I mean that's kind of the fallacy about the whole armed insurrection thing right? Nonsense. Here? In this country? Absolutely not.
Let's talk Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is and will always be murdering, terrorist zealots. But for years they were also something else: exceedingly professional in what they did. It was not an amateur operation and it's operatives were not stupid. They had practices, developed and mastered a "craft" of their own, and learned from the Pakistani ISI. And they did all this in the mountains of Afghanistan, some of the least well mapped terrain on earth. When the US Military invaded in 2001, they relied on maps last made by British military expeditions during World War I, 90 years prior. That's how, until relatively recently, uncharted the region Al Qaeda hid in was
It did not save them. Al Qaeda central may be still around, but only in name. Most of it's core leadership and members who were alive on 9/11 have been captured or dead for a decade. Osama bin Laden was one of the last ones. Relentless military assaults by the US, the Drone war, cyberwarfare, novel intelligence gathering tactics all, slowly but surely, all but destroyed the organization.
Now let's consider the United States. Our territory, including our vast national park system, is some of the most well charted territory on earth, every inch of it photographed in extremely high resolution from orbit over many years. The USGS has extremely detailed maps of every corner of this country.
It would be impossible for American rebels to hide in the wilderness like Al Qaeda did. They'd be instantly surrounded by all sides and the US government would have everything they need to find them. All of them. Not to mention that unlike Al Qaeda, American rebels would lack in the professionalism category. All it would take is one push notification about how a sports team is doing, to light the insurgent group up like a Christmas tree, before a Drone pays a visit. And where do they resupply and rearm? These US militia groups know exactly one supply line: Walmart with their Credit Cards. That would not be open to them.
Al Qaeda by contrast, relies on hostage money, drug sales money, religious taxes, and the generosity of wealthy Muslims who remain beyond reach of the US. And their weapons come from the absolutely vast flow of Arms across central Asia. You can find guns in the Kyber Pass for instance, that have been in continuous use since the early 20th century. There is no vast arms network across the US that is comparable... not like Central Asia.
American Militias wouldn't stand a chance. People who want guns to defend themselves against the government are living a fantasy. Al Qaeda tried everything to survive the US throwing nearly everything we got at them, and it didn't save them. And they were far more capable than any American militia group would ever be. They had the right location and right resources. In America, a militia group would have none of that.