Ishm
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Do you seriously think that any enemy today who is targeting America is going to roll up on the beaches and fight a small arms war? The country will be mostly a nuclear wasteland before that happens. The argument that an armed civilian population was going to stop an enemy attacking disappeared when nukes arrived.Do you know how many military veterans there are in the USA?
16.5 million per the 2021 Census. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2022/veterans-day.html
Let me rephrase: 16,500,000.
Then we have the estimate that as many as 81 million Americans own guns. https://americangunfacts.com/gun-ownership-statistics/
The Chinese People's Liberation Army is the largest in the world, but is only a little over 2 million. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/29-largest-armies-in-the-world.html
So yeah, the fact that we have an armed population is likely daunting.