A civilian militia in modern times wouldn't have a chance.
You do realize that a great many civilians are military trained, right? My younger brother is a civilian, but he was in the military at one time. There's this thing called the National Guard where they train you to use weapons and other "tools of war" like artillery, tanks, missiles... Maybe you've heard of it?
Also, since you mention it... why wouldn't we want to train ourselves on the finer workings of militant weapons if our chance of success is so grim (and even more grim without training?) Doesn't it benefit society to have people who know what they are doing in case China (completely arbitrary) decides to invade?
Is china invading the new Military state? or is China just invading?
The reason a civilian militia has such poor chances is the equipment. I'd think that'd be obvious, You can have all the operating knowledge of something, but if you don't have the equipment. You can't very well use it. And i don't think the invasion of a Military base is something that a Civilian Militia would be able to easily complete, and even if they do manage to capture one, That would only provoke some serious retaliation. You're hopelessly out gunned.
If china just INVADES then we still have the Military. However, are you saying that the Chinese will just open fire on civilians and military alike? War has rules. Also, Civilians aren't supposed to take up arms, if they want to do that, then they should JOIN the Military.
If China invades during the Military state, Again, they shouldn't just kill Civilians, and Civilians shouldn't just kill the Chinese. Also, How many civilians do you expect to even take up arms? Invading china or no?
Your argument also seems to revolve around these doomsday scenarios. I like to think a bit more practically.
Stray bullets... because we both know that you can't have stray bullets unless it's an automatic weapon. They are obviously the least accurate of all.
It's a hell of a lot easier if you're shooting something that sprays them all over the place.
Also, Why'd you even need to kill the damn groudhog? He also didn't NEED to use an assault rifle to kill it. Hell, you don't even need a GUN to kill a groundhog.
Ground hogs are rodents. I'd like to see you try to kill one without a gun... have you ever seen one, yet alone been near one?
Chemical solutions work.