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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday December 31 2019, @07:33PM (7 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday December 31 2019, @07:33PM (#937978)

    You have an AR-15. The government has drone-mounted guided missiles that will hit and destroy your home moving at mach 5. You won't even hear it coming.

    In short, you lost that one a long time ago.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Tuesday December 31 2019, @08:08PM

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday December 31 2019, @08:08PM (#937997) Journal

    It's true to a certain extent, but we're not in an iRobot kind of situation, yet. For it to get to that point, you'd be siding with the government getting full military support. I'm guessing, if it got to that point, the "unruly civilians/rebels" would have access to some things.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 01 2020, @02:30AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 01 2020, @02:30AM (#938101) Journal

    As I recall, the gubbermint passed a special law about weaponizing small, privately owned drones. A year or more ago, I watched a Youtube video of some young man who built and flew a drone with a weapon on it. How about 4 years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBC-xL_MTg [youtube.com]

    Granted, that puny thing doesn't compare to a predator drone, but it demonstrates that the cops and the military don't have all the firepower.

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 03 2020, @04:00PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Friday January 03 2020, @04:00PM (#939106)

      The drone-mount isn't what makes an AR-15 completely outclassed by a modern missile. The speed that means your first indication that it's coming is the explosion, the guidance system, and the fact that close is good enough to do the job is what makes the difference.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:50PM (#938829)

    Gee.. I bet someone said the same thing with Vietnam and yet the Yanks got their assess handed to them.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday January 03 2020, @04:05PM (1 child)

      by Thexalon (636) on Friday January 03 2020, @04:05PM (#939110)

      The VietCong, by the time they were fighting the US at least, had tanks and other heavy weapons supplied by the Chinese.

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      • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday January 04 2020, @12:21AM

        by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Saturday January 04 2020, @12:21AM (#939294)

        The VietCong, by the time they were fighting the US at least, had tanks and other heavy weapons supplied by the Chinese.

        We made the early mistake of backing the Ngô family, a typically corrupt, self serving bunch of third world plutocrats whose sole concern was their own benefit. It was easy for the Việt Cộng, who in a large part were part of local populations, to win the battle for "hearts and minds". Your crops were in trouble? Your animals sick? The Việt Cộng were there to help. Help the Ngô family and their backers? The Việt Cộng were there to see and "reward" that as well. Too many officers (and reporters, who were allowed then to be embedded in troops) saw the truth and reported it, but their reports were ignored in favor of keeping the money flowing to where it did least good. By the time the Ngô family was deposed, the war was lost and it was just a long battle of attrition until the U.S. tired of the cost. The Chinese threw in support once they realized the situation, thinking they would capitalize on it in the end, but in the end, the Chinese (and Russians) made the same mistake the French and the U.S. did, believing it was a war of ideologies. To the Vietnamese people, it was always about independence.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 07 2020, @01:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 07 2020, @01:54AM (#940473)

    Yet they still have problems with keeping goat herders living in mudhuts in line. I'm sure in your mind, the government has several million missiles, tanks and drones stockpiled for such an occasion.