This footage was recorded in Homs, Syria in 2011 at the beginning of the Syrian Civil War. It is the perfect example of why an insurgency can never be defeated by a conventional military power.

In the gun control debate in the United States we often hear politicians state that there is no way a group of Armed Americans could ever stand up to the U.S. Military. This is said by the same group of people who have watched illiterate men in sandals stand up to the U.S. Military for over twenty years with nothing more than their will to fight and decades old Kalishnikov rifles and explosives made from recycled cow manure.

What you're looking at above is all it takes for an insurgent to reek havoc on a professional military. One second the man is a shop owner sweeping outside of his shop next to a group of civilians. The next, he's firing an RPG directly into an armored vehicle and getting the hell out of the area before the troops can even attempt to react to the situation.