If the U.S was successfully invaded, are the rough neighborhoods and ghettos are the last line of defense?

Question

what's your opinion?

at least give the invaders a hard time fighting in urban warfare.

I support the right to bare arms. I've asked this question for fun, to see other opinions. I'm bored

Answer 1

Rough Neighborhoods and ghettoes may be able to resist for a short time, but not long. Urban areas, if you don't mind collateral damage, can easily be removed from supply and starved to death. Urban gangs may be able to talk big, but I doubt that many would have the discipline to provide organized resistance in the long run, particulalry if the situation meant joining up with traditional enemies against a common foe. However, I do agree with the statements of several others about how much trouble rural folk could provide any foreign invader, particulalrly in the mountains. Given a large wilderness area, a small guerilla force can hold out against and whittle away at numerically superior forces for ridiculous amounts of time, and force an enemy to devote suprising amounts of manpower to attempts at isolating them. For a few historic examples, a small band of Apaches kept US and Mexican forces chasing after them for years in the 19th century, the Freedom Fighting Mujuahadeen of Afghanistan wore the Soviet Army down so far as to force a Russian withdrawal, and the Terrorist Mujahadeen of Afghanistan are currently whittling away at American and coalition forces there. ANy foreign forcethat tried to invade the US would probably require decades to be able to walk around in the mountains unarmed.

Answer 2

Doubtful. those bad neighborhoods would make effective redoubts at first, and then they would simply be surrounded and cut off. They might become islands of resistance, but without being able to lash out, it would die out.

Also, gangbangers and ciminal elements aren't soldiers. They might be even decent shots, but without proper traiing they will never get the full value out of their weapons. And neither do they ahve the discipline and cohesion of a real military outfit. Which means that they will be thinking as individuals and not as a unit, and they will die like flies against professionals.

The same, unfortunately, applies to most militias and civilian armed groups. They would, I suppose, have some sort of organization, but whereas the backcountry would be a good place to mount some resistance, fighting any sort of war is a job for soldiers. Civilians who take up arms are not subject to the protection acorded to POW's by the Geneva Convention and if martial law is instituted, odds are that they will be executed.

The only true last line of defense is not a line. It is asymetric warfare by professional troops on their home ground. Let an invader take the major cities and overrun teh major bases, so long as the equipment and the troops have scattered in the countryside in small sub-units. It takes a lot more ressources to track down a whole whack of companies or platoons than it does to locate a whole regiment or division, after all. and even more so to ensure effectively taking them out in battle.

Answer 3

America has already been invaded.There is already an ongoing implosion in the USA.Wars are being battled by liberals, democrats,republicans, whites, blacks,Hispanics,rich, poor, Jews Christians,Muslims,pro life, gays, bisexuals,bigots,Chinese,Indians,Irish,polish.What is worse is the fact that a citizen is entitled to the right to bear arms which now arms these people including the KKK & Black Panther type groups, nazis, skin heads etc etc.I think if any country attacks there will be a group or more supporting the invaders! There is loyalty to Ireland and Israel when there should be loyalty to the USA.So the question of invasion is academic-rough neighbourhoods would support anarchism! Thats the sad part about making money and forgetting to look after your parents rather then send them to a home.

Answer 4

Actually the backwoods and the Mountains are the last line. The 'ghettos' will be overrun first, made into prison areas if not totally decimated. The wooded areas, national parks even, will be the best place to hide and regroup. The Militiamen and the like throughout those 'rural' areas already have routes to defend themselves. They know where to hide from all but the most experienced woodsman. And they are armed to the teeth. They have prepared for any war, foreign or domestic. I would encourage you to buy a plot of forestland. Build a self-sustaining life there. Know the area inside and out. "Rough" neighborhoods are just too well planned out. Ever get lost in one? Find it hard to get out? I was in Cabrini Green one night, dead in the middle (I look White, so I knew I wasn't supposed to be there). But it's still a city area. I knew if I found a marker (Sears Tower), I could navigate out. Now think about all those hikers that die every year coz they went off the nature trail........ there are no markers, no defined areas except for that one trail. For someone that lives off the trail, they know their way........ for the rest of us, we're coyote meat

Answer 5

I don't know, maybe, I mean the Jewish Ghettos were the last to go in Hitler's Germany weren't they? The only country with the manpower and capability to pull off a US invasion is China. Maybe ghetto people wouldn't take to kindly to the Chinese telling them what to do, but the Chinese may just blow up the ghettos if they're too much trouble.

In rural America guns outnumber people by a wide margin, everyone is armed and they know the hills and backwoods better than any invader, so I'm pretty sure they'd be the last holdouts.

Answer 6

Nope, don't think so. I think that the rural areas, the back woods, redneck country would be much better off and ready to fight and last longer. More people have guns, know how to use them, start using them correctly at an early age, and have more of them. I have a concealed weapons permit, I carry a 9MM Glock everyday. I have a shotgun beside my bed, loaded, and my husband has a 9mm on his side of the bed. We happen to have some mighty big 4-legged animals that run around our property and we have domestic animals that we would prefer not to lose to those 400-500 pound wild ones. Of course, there are a few wild 2-legged animals that roam around too, but those are a bit scarcer when they know people have guns in their homes and will use them. Plus, the people there are more able to live off the land, they are not so dependent on outside food sources..

Answer 7

I don't know. You have to remember that a lot of people in the rural areas have been shooting guns their whole lives and know the areas in which they live, really well. When I say they know the areas, i mean they know where they are by looking at trees and bends in a river. Anyone who decides to attack this country will have to do it by land because we own the skies. They would have a hard time in both the urban and rural settings.

Watch the movie Red Dawn. Trust me, it will show you the light.

Answer 8

If anyway invades the us (America), then there going to get bombarded w/ Nukes in there Homeland (We have about 16000 ready to fire)...

Plus..I dont think other countries relize the kind of firepower we (regular US citizens) have..The US citizens alone could defeat countries like Iran or Syria if they invaded America


(and dont forget about the Coast Guard and National Guard)



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The 2 post after mine are completely 100% right)

Answer 9

If America would be invaded, the Boy Scouts could stop them easy. I guess that's why liberals want to get rid of the Boy Scouts and 2nd amendment rights.

Answer 10

If there is still a 'last line of defense', the invasion is not yet 'successful'. However, you make a good argument for repealing gun control laws and restoring the rights guaranteed by the 2nd amendment. I realize that was not your intent.