big time nukes. Bigger than used on Japan.

reading NRA crap much?

Nukes, conventional air strikes and artillery do that very efficiently.

Those popguns are not going to do anyone much good.

I'm sure the Chinese are just itching to invade their biggest customers, or the Russians have developed some new hobbies besides kleptomania and food insecurity.

because the stats are so staggering. They are probably smart enough to let us do ourselves in.

By the time climate change catches up with us, most will starve

...when food prices are astronomical and rationing is in place.

People will use them to survive (naturally).

The unarmed countries would at least be able to squash rebellions.

Just another excuse for people who have a fetish for portable, easily obtained mass-killing mechanisms.

They would wet their pants and hide.

And if somebody did invade now most of the American casualties would be from friendly fire.

Privately Owned Firearms

The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is 270,000,000
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states

270 Million! That's a lot of guns. I think that horse is already out of the barn.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl08.xls

8,775 murders by firearms in 2010 compared with 270 million guns in the United States.

That means that of the total civilian guns in circulation only 0.00325% are ever used to murder another person. That's a little over 3/1000's of 1%. Thats a whole lot of guns doing a whole lot of nothing. If guns are ONLY designed to kill, It sounds like most guns are defective.

Let's touch that up a little there are about 80 million gun owners in the US. That means only 0.01096875% of gun owners murder another human being in the US. A little over a 1/100 of 1%. That is exceedingly small, especially when you consider that the majority of murders are ultra-concentrated in gang riddled urban centers like Chicago, NYC and DC.

What say you?