>>I have a suspicion that there will be a lot of shooting before we ever got to the point where they could order us to kneel.
I used to believe that, but anyone who shoots will be branded a villain and whacko. “Resaonable” people will say that he did not have to resort to violence. The media will dissect his life and cherry-pick the parts that support the narrative that this was a paranoid lone-wolf. If they leave a family behind, the media will make their life a living hell.
Just as the media glorifies the truly crazy person who shoots up a school, they will go all-out to villify the Randy Weaver types who just got pushed too damn far!
We like to believe that we are free-range humans being slowly herded into a fenced field. The truth is that we not free-range anymore. We aren’t even in a fenced field. We are in a pen and moving towards the chute that leads to a slaughterhouse. Or, if we are “lucky” they’re just going to castrate us and put us back out in the field for another season or two.
To paraphrase Kipling: “Then go to your God like a man!”