[lifeofgrace]

I don’t care how many there are. We don’t have the weapons, they do. Me sitting in my yard, or bunker, or whatever the crap I have built won’t stop a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and won’t defend against military weapons. That’s my point.

[Himyar]

The military weapons will not be wielded by a highly trained military. They will be used by thugs and wannabes.
They are cutting the military. Those military who have faced hell for the past decade are not going to have the warm and fuzzies for being kicked out.
This country is seething. People who have been oblivious are seeing this immigrant “crisis” and are steamed. This may be a bridge too far for the government.

[Mariner]

The insurgency in Iraq had fewer weapons and less technology than civilians in the US.

And fewer men willing to fight.

Had they not cut a deal with the US Army they would not have been defeated.