Is anarchy a good idea? How could it work?

**cmind** · 03-01-2015 09:07 PM

I believe it was one of the Japanese generals during WW2 who said that invading the US would be a nightmare because there would be a guy with a gun around every corner. Now imagine if you were trying to invade a country like that, but there wasn't even a prize at the end (taking over the tax base).

**Universal Mind** · 03-02-2015 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by cmind

I believe it was one of the Japanese generals during WW2 who said that invading the US would be a nightmare because there would be a guy with a gun around every corner. Now imagine if you were trying to invade a country like that, but there wasn't even a prize at the end (taking over the tax base).

The armed U.S. citizenry is a big deterrent to consider, and it probably did play a role in Japan's decision not to invade the U.S. mainland. It is one of the reasons I support gun rights. We still need a military. A guerilla war would be Hell, but we need to be able to fight off an invading military much faster than that. There are those governments that would invade any way, so we have to give them an even bigger reason not to come here and a way to get them out of here in a hurry.

**Rozollo** · 03-02-2015 03:34 AM

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

The armed U.S. citizenry is a big deterrent to consider, and it probably did play a role in Japan's decision not to invade the U.S. mainland. It is one of the reasons I support gun rights. We still need a military. A guerilla war would be Hell, but we need to be able to fight off an invading military much faster than that. There are those governments that would invade any way, so we have to give them an even bigger reason not to come here and a way to get them out of here in a hurry.

A guerilla war is hell because we have rules as established countries. If we didn't care (i.e. there was no government to restrict what weapons we could and couldn't use) an invading country could easily poison the population of an area, nuke us, or whatever else, nullifying personal armament. The reason Iraq 3.5 was so hellacious is because we had restraint still.