The fact of the matter is that if you want a gun to protect yourself against the government you are living a fantasy because the united states military is the most powerfull army ever. So really what are small arms going to do against the military. However i am not saying that gun control laws should be passed as i belive that we have a right to bear arms.
insurgent groups with crappier arms than US citizens have kept us bottled up in Afghanistan for over 10 years.
No, what's kept us "bottled up" is that the people we are trying to prop up have no credibility with their own people.
If our goal was to subdue Afghanistan and turn it into a colonial state, we could do that. Easily.
But come to think of it, I think you might be happier living in Afghanistan, guy.
They are a bunch of religious assholes with weapons who oppress the shit out of their women. This would be like fucking paradise to you. I even think they ban abortion.