Actions from anowhineMovable Type Pro 5.22015-10-13T11:54:52Zhttp://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=feed&_type=actions&blog_id=1&id=5923Commented on It could be worse in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2015:/charlie/blog-static//1.3914#19826782015-10-13T10:54:52Zanowhine
'a pre-emptive red card to anyone who argues that the US Constitution's Second Amendment and an armed populace is in any way a solution to state oppression in the modern age' (OGH, 214)
Being a history nut, I think I could find a couple of cases in modern history, in which armed civilians managed to stand up to a military force, but those always involved a mass political organization, not rugged individualists. (A third-rate and unmotivated military on the other side helps, too.)
The political movement has to radical. The German moderate left and liberals created their own democratic paramilitary during the Weimar years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbanner_Schwarz-Rot-Gold), but that was strictly for self-defense, not civil war. When the time for extreme and desperate measures came, they folded.
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