12th March 2018, 11:50 PM
Of course, "self defense" is their main argument, because their old argument of choice "revolution against an oppressive government", is no longer possible with AR15s. They have drones. DRONES. They can shoot everyone in an overweight, out of shape, self-absorbed militia before anyone even knows they are there, at a range of a mile away, and even if by some miracle they did manage to take out an army of flying robots, so what? They at best have simply survived, and the soldiers that were shooting at them are forever untouchable and invincible.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)