[archy]

Civil wars don't work like that. Yes, the first people the gun owners will be shooting at will be these "special police" but it won't stop there. When one section of the population declares a shooting war on another, the bullets tend to fly both directions. "Let's you and he fight" just isn't going to happen.

I expressed that opinion to a very liberal friend who accused me of threatening him. He didn't seem to grasp that he had been threatening me. They don't.

The prototype for what's coming here is not the US Civil War, but the Finnish Civil War of 1918. In about 4 months of fighting, the Finns killed off about 30,000 of their fellows, about one percent of their national population at the time; we managed about 2% from 1861-1865, but that was spread out over four years.

Only about 10,000 of the Finns who died from the fighting, the rest perishing in prison camps or during postwar executions.

A similar casualty rate of one percent of America's 300 million population would result in- well, you do the math. But it's not likely Americans would put an end to it after just four months, either.

Accordingly: CWII ping.

[Dead Corpse]

Eh... I don't think gun owners here in the US would bother too much with "foot soldiers" in a "war on gun owners". Unless directly confronted, a more effective course of action would be to bug out, track down, and eliminate those who give the orders to violate the Constitution in such a heinous way.

No matter how good security is, not even the Secret Service can keep up a 1000 yrd security cordon around the clock. Heck, they'd be doing pretty good to set up a good 500 yrd cordon. That's a lot of security personnel to field for every responsible rep, senator, judge, and governor.

If even a fraction of the 80 million gun owners went to war with the US government, not even the full force of the active duty military would save them...

[FreedomPoster]

This just belongs on the thread:

[Noumenon]

The Finnish Civil War presents an interesting model, but given the societal/ideological fault lines we can see, we're in for something that may resemble a combination of the Finnish situtation and a South American-style 'dirty war'.

IMO, the Gramscian Left's been all too successful in Balkanizing this country. It's an open question as to whetehr we have the will to do what's necessary to save this nation from destruction. The cure will almost certainly be as bad as the disease itself. Almost, but not quite.

Fell deeds await.