Somehow this weird talking point is still seen as a mike drop by gun control nuts even as the U.S. scrambles to cut a deal to end 18 years of grueling quagmire warfare against an enemy that lives in caves and has no F-15s or Hellfire missiles.
Of course it's vapid, but it's also vicious. They think they're judo-flipping the rubes out in flyover country and pinning them to the mat with their reverence for the U.S. military. "You hayseeds can't possibly think you could beat those awesome soldiers in a GUNFIGHT?"
For the gun-control zealot, it's a form of contempt-signaling, the even dumber negative form of virtue-signaling. Other members of their tribe are supposed to giggle at the image of Bubba impotently waving his "assault rifle" and Gadsden flag while an F-15 vaporizes him.
One of the obvious problems with this "you can't beat the U.S. military so guns are no use against the military" idiocy is that tyrants around the world very clearly DO fear the prospect of an armed populace. That's why they always aggressively disarm their captive people.
The track record of lightly-armed insurgencies against professional military forces in the modern era is actually pretty good, even when the military forces are vastly more aggressive and willing to inflict collateral damage than the U.S. armed forces ever would be.
To even speculate on how things would go if the U.S. armed forces became a gang of ruthless killers under some communist or fascist American tyrant is to enter the realm of science fiction. Healthy respect for the 2nd Amendment helps to ensure things never get that far.
An armed population of sovereign citizens goes a long way toward keeping tyranny from ever getting off the ground. Of course collectivist Democrats with their hive-mind thinking don't consciously understand it, but the 2A is helping restrain their worst impulses RIGHT NOW.
The many, many, many bad ideas of the Left all began as theoretical discussions, campus bullshit sessions, and Two-Minutes Hates in their online fever swamps. One thing that keeps their worse ideas from mutating into policy agendas is the reality of an armed populace.
It really does make a difference that they know some of the collectivist ideas they would love to inflict on the American people would be effectively resisted. The Left knows it subconsciously, which is why they keep having spazzed-out fantasies of using F-15s to slaughter Bubba.
They're trying to reassure each other that THEIR power is absolute while YOU have none at all. Once they trick you into submitting to socialized medicine, forced population shifts, or one of their other doomsday schemes, you'll be helpless. Deep down, they're not so sure.
But long before you dip into left-wing psychosis or apocalyptic scenarios of armed revolt against a tyrant, you have the way armed citizens see themselves differently than disarmed ones. The first two amendments in the Bill of Rights profoundly shape the nature of citizenship.
The 2nd Amendment UNDERMINES tyranny long before anyone has to think about FIGHTING it. If we stand tall as sovereign citizens and cherish our rights AND responsibilities - the 2nd Amendment is where they meet! - we won't get stuck with rulers we have to "take on." /end
