They will try to disarm individual citizens by attcking them with full SWAT teams in the middle of the night, but they won’t get far before the word spreads and people band together to fight back. They can’t get 200,000,000 guns that way.
They’ll spread it out over long periods of time in geographically dispersed parts of the country. Do you think the media would report on large-scale confiscation raids? The government is already attempting to control the output. Your proposal relies on the word getting out that it’s happening in a way that Paul Revere would, well, revere.
The spin masters in the police departments would make it sound like they took down a criminal organization with an “arsenal” of “assault weapons” that likely pales in comparison to the stockpiles most FReepers have.
While I agree that firing back is the best solution, liberal activist judges, assuming you make it to the courtroom, would rule that you’re a terrorist, and you’ll end up in a concentration camp or solitary confinement. If everyone who fires back is killed but takes down one or two cops, the media byline would be that “homegrown terrorists” are “taking down cops with lethal efficiency” during raids to try to curtail “drug trafficking.”
I’m completely in tune with what FReepers are saying on this subject, but the realist in me has to believe it’s not going to be that simple. It never goes to plan.