It’s exactly WHY the gun grabbing leftist asswipes continue to harp on RIFLES to be banned despite their extremely low involvement in any type of actual gun violence. Pistols (mainly illegally purchased or stolen pistols for that matter) are used for the majority of actual gun violence in the United States. Break it down even further and it’s one particular subset of demographic that are the real culprits responsible….but no one wants to actually talk about that, right?

RIFLES are needed to project power from distances. They know this and that’s why they are so desperate to take ours. That’s why when you see the US giving arms to some group overseas to fight against another faction, they are always RIFLES…not pistols.

To the genius in the comments stating that “your guns won’t protect you against nuclear weapons or biological warfare, etc…” No shite Sherlock. But they ARE a huge deterrent against an invading army that thinks about rolling up in here with boots on the ground trying to subdue the population.
Look how poorly the US fared in Iraq and Afghanistan trying to just play policeman with the local population (who all had access to small arms). And reprisal killings don’t work either…they only incite hatred and revenge against the occupying forces.
This nation is too vast with too many people of too many different backgrounds armed with too many weapons to successfully invade and subjugate. Land mass, harsh weather conditions and population is why invading Russia has always failed, even when you go scorched earth.

Also, one fails to realize that during the course of this so-called invasion …American guerrillas WILL take down opposing enemies ammo dumps and foot patrols; taking THEIR weapons and using them against the occupying army (this includes scenarios where the American army has been turned against the citizens, too).
There are A LOT of veterans WITH recent combat experience in the past 20-30 years out here in civilian life. Vets that know how to use tanks, F-16s, Apaches, and other weapons once they are captured. Vets that can show others how to use them and train them up. Lotta officers and NCOs still out here healthy in civilian life.
Hitler made the mistake thinking that Americans were a bunch of soft weak people who would cower in fear based off what he saw in the media.

If you put our way of life at stake , removed our comfort level, and legit threatened our families-
you’d find out REALLY QUICK that there are still a ton of savages here that will end you. I’m saying this an Army veteran myself who is still in tremendous shape for being 46. We’re not the weak arse people you think we are because the trannys and the freaks in uniform get all the attention lately.