Afghanistan

I had a conversation with a friend over Thanksgiving about AWs.  His question was "Why are they protected arms?"  He is not hostile to guns or even AWs.  He likes them.  I explained about the insurrectionary theory of the Second Amendment, which he understood, but he did not think they could possibly be useful against the full might of the U S. military.  

Afghanistan.  We and most of our NATO allies brought all their high-tech weapons to bear and could not defeat a bunch of ignorant 14th century  goatherders.