Quantum Windbag
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The puny little backwater colony of the Americas took on and defeated the most powerful army in the world once back in the eighteenth century. I am pretty sure that the 300,000,000 gun owners in the USA can take on and beat the army in a war over the rights which are granted by our birth. It might be an ugly gorrila war fought in the streets of every city across the nation but the enemy is outnumbered and without resolve. They can't use heavy weapons to wipe out civilians inside cities without massive collateral damage so they will be forced to go house to house in small teams just like they did in the middle east. In a war of attrition the people will win.
England was defeated by great distances and great aid to the rebels from France.
If we expect to be 'saved' by the massively over-weight minority that is ready to actually shoot at another person and risk being killed, we expect far too much.
The men who faced the Redcoats were hard, strong, enduring people. It is dreaming to think the population that would really resist is like those forerunners.
England was defeated because we had guns with better range.