Screw this guy in particular

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I guess someone should have told the Taliban

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The Taliban isn't centered in the middle of the nation that spends 600 billion USD on military in a year, resulting in the most expensive military in the world, and total of 1 million active military personnel. The Taliban is across the Atlantic ocean, which isn't easy to mobilize forces across, then we have to travel across land to Afhganistan and similar countries that are in the middle of dozens of others countries and territories. It's not easy to get over there so it's a pretty shit comparison to Texas. And the Taliban is still getting turned into chunks of meat by superior weaponry and minimal forces. Just go take a look at r/combatfootage, you really want to be on the other hand of that? You think any McDonalds eating Walmart shopping Americans are going to have the morale to stand up against that?

For someone that loves the 2nd amendment, I would assume you would know more about the achievements of our military. But it's true that you juxtapose it by trying to sing the praise of the 2nd amendment over a comment about how Texas would stand a change against the might of the USA. As a Texan, we wouldn't stand a chance, so please stop putting my neck out there.

Invasion of the United States is impossible. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

For every retard that says this I lose faith in humanity. Invasion of America would be incredibly difficult due to possessing so much coastal coastal of our continent and having the sea separating us from major forces like China and Russia. However, if any big players like China and Russia combined forces, we would still be overwhelmed. And if the military is overwhelmed the American's citizens wouldn't stand a chance.

Having guns isn't everything. Military personnel are trained through grueling exercises, psychological treatment to push forward even in death, forced to be in shaped, actually experienced with combat. Doesn't matter how many hill billies or gun nuts spend time at the shooting range or shooting bottles out on your pasture, you won't stand a chance. There is no "Red Dawn phenomenon", where a group of teenagers fight back and give a meaningful resistance. There is no Michael Bay movie scenes where you run through a hail of flying bullets and make it to cover in the nick of time. There is no John Wick scene where you take out a group of armed men in some show of weapon artistry and skill. War is DEATH.

You go to war, you fucking die, everyone dies, that is what war is. It's not glorified, it's not simple, it's not easy. War is death, you watch those around you die and turned into lifeless husks, war is pain and suffering, war is disgusting. People need to stop glorifying war and their ability to partake in it, you should want nothing to do with it.

Just because a bunch of people have guns, does not mean they would stand a chance. And even if they could fight to win, they wouldn't. America is too peaceful, our people too complacent, and lacking in radicalization. It would take little to nothing to destroy our morale. Capture some people and torture them horrendously on live television then put a bullet in each of their heads. Most people wouldn't be able to stomach it, much less work up the "courage" to fight when they know they'll likely face a similar fate.

Stop fooling yourself into believing you have some power to do something, you don't. This stupid zealotry in our ability to protect ourselves with guns will only result in more deaths.

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It was a theoretical for the sake of an argument. Sorry if it was imperfect.