ctdonath
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Just one reason of many. The core of our nation is our Constitution; a rogue* government is not submissive thereto, so it is not our government but a domestic enemy. It is the enemies of the people, foreign and domestic, for which the people are armed and from which a militia may be raised on short notice.I had always thought that the Militia had been kept to protect the people from rogue government.
That "tech stuff" is largely geard toward other formal armies with lots of "tech stuff". Others have noted above that such equipment & skill is not a magic talisman against a bunch of guys with ARs in a pickup truck. Yes we may be winning in Iraq and Afghanistan (and Vietnam had not the politicos stepped in), but it's taking a huge effort over many years by the most powerful military on the planet willing to inflict significant collateral damage on a different continent. This in contrast with, say, using that F22 with GPS smartbombs against a target who is sharing an apartment building with the pilot's brother, or to take out the infrastructure supplying his child's daycare. We're not talking about targets among a different culture speaking a different language in a different country on a different continent, we're talking about a military using that "tech stuff" against their own home.When the whole world was using a variety of muskets, some swords and cannon, it was not hard to train everyday people to use and fight with them. Now there is just too much tech stuff for anyone but a specially trained operator with months of training and experience to use properly. A pickup truck filled with guys with AR15s is not going to stand up to a F22 with GPS guided bombs.
The other point of a militia (as the whole people, armed - not a ragtag bunch of fringies) is the sheer number. Every year we Americans run operation "Deer Season", where some 18,000,000 militiamen self-equipped with sniper rifles and other serious & effective gear spend weeks engaging in live-fire lethal exercises against live targets. Now, with that in mind, go read about the Swiss aphorism "shoot twice and go home". The militia, as the Founding Fathers intended, should garner awe from even the professional military.
* - be wary of tossing 'round the term "rogue government" lightly. Many seek to apply it where it does not apply.