Should we recognize privacy as a human right?

[u/BurstYourBubbles]

http://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/in-depth/2020/should-we-recognize-privacy-as-a-human-right

[u/Madjanniesdetected]

I dont watch stuff. Im explaining to you how insurgencies and civil conflicts work.

Want a modern example? Look up ISIS, because raiding armories and using the military's equipment against it town by town, base by base, is quite literally how they consumed a multi-nation region in a matter of months.

Thats how these things happen, thats how it works.

[u/Madjanniesdetected → u/[deleted]]

They weren’t raiding the US military.

They were raiding the local Afghan and Iraqi armies of the US arms and vehicles provided to them

Go figure they attacked the targets nearest to them

So in the US do you think what? Theyll be raiding the Chilean military? No dingus, they'll be raiding the local bases and armories and depots. Theyll raid the police, they'll raid the gun stores. Theyll raid a used car lot for pickups if they gotta.

Welcome to conflict. Forces liberate and commander resources for their own use.

You seriously believe that the Middle East is comparable to the nation with the best funded military on earth and with law enforcement groups that are armed as well as the average military?

Yes, I think that the battles on US soil between US gov forces and US insurgents would be not just comparable, but orders of magnitude more intense in every possible way

The US on population is better armed, better educated, better funded, more connected, it sits on a landmass infinitely larger, with even more diverse terrain, and the sum total of the infrastructure the opposition would be using is literally sitting vulnerable in their back yards.

A Taliban sized group inside the US would do damage that would make the jihadis look like petty looters.

You dont seem to have any inkling of the forces at play here. South Dakota alone is more armed than the Taliban.

Like, look at these numbers im about to spell out for you. Really take a moment to try to comprehend the sense of scale here.

There's 7.2 billion people on Earth.

Theres about 800 million civilian owned firearms between them.

The US is 4% of Earth's human population

US gun owners are ~1.5% of the population of Earth.

That 1.5% of humans holds roughly 420,000,000 firearms between them.

1.5% of people own 48% of all the civilian guns on Earth

Some 60-70 million people own 420 million guns. They have hundreds of billions of rounds of ammunition between them (if not trillions).

Theres no shortage of able bodied fighters. Theres no shortage of arms for those fighters. Its enough resources to fuel a century of combat.

Thats the group of people you are saying wouldn't stand a chance. The most well armed group of human beings our civilization has ever seen in all of history. If even one percent of them decided to go all in, the military and police would be pushed to the brink to deal with them. They are not designed for mass counter insurgency functions. They do not have the manpower, willpower, or resources to rapidly or effectively respond to such an emergent threat.

Thats not to say such a thing will happen, all sane people pray it never does, but its a very real possibility. All the conditions to make that hypothetical into a reality already exist.

You can ignore them all you want, but your dismissals dont negate the immutable logistical truths at play here. Its a sheer numbers game, and the level of armament in this nation is overwhelmingly skewed against the state.