The Right to Bear Arms Is Still a Check on Tyranny

[jdege]

[Lumpy]

Interesting comment on Finland's national defense training from The Atlantic: "How the Finns Deter Russian Invasion"

If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.

and

In Finland, adolescent males report for a short and intense period of military training, followed by shorter refreshers for most of their adult life. The training is not, as in the Israeli model, a few years of dedicated service. Nor does it emphasize military discipline, such as keeping one’s bunk tidy and shoes polished, or the Prussian-style transformation of citizen-recruit into fighting machine. Instead, it prepares civilians to be ready to join their unit and harass and kill invaders

[Holland&Holland]

Interesting comment on Finland's national defense training from The Atlantic: "How the Finns Deter Russian Invasion"

If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.

and

In Finland, adolescent males report for a short and intense period of military training, followed by shorter refreshers for most of their adult life. The training is not, as in the Israeli model, a few years of dedicated service. Nor does it emphasize military discipline, such as keeping one’s bunk tidy and shoes polished, or the Prussian-style transformation of citizen-recruit into fighting machine. Instead, it prepares civilians to be ready to join their unit and harass and kill invaders

They may need it.

[Grayskies]

This only works in countries that refuse to nuke their citizens unlike in Joe Biden's America.

[yukonjasper]

Always has been and always will be.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/06/biden-says-gun-owners-would-need-f-15s-and-nukes-to-take-on-the-us-govt/