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OK, I now beleive Jag's not spell checking. Anymore. :-)
Once again I'll say: the effect and effectiveness of an armed citizenry in preserving their own freedom is something that can't be understood in terms of raw firepower.
Especially since the standing army is drawn from our own populace--in the event of an internal conflict the military would simply not be reliable. (We saw this the *last* time we had open armed conflict in the country.) We do have 1.37 million on active duty with our armed forces. But the population of the country is 278 million including about 71 million males age 15-49. And many of the males older than that know a hell of a lot about guerilla warfare; having learned it while matriculating at the University of The Nam.
Having a armed citizenry is a "canary in the coalmine" too. A despotic regime would have to disarm the citizens first, which is another reason a lot of us see red when our right to self-defense is threatened.
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