[MichaelP]

They government would do it in a heartbeat. Simply proclaim a disaster and say it's for the publics safety. It would be hard to do on a macro scale though, not enough storm troopers...

Mike

[Red in Blue PA]

I have been trying to imagine if something on the scale of Japan happened here if they were forcibly disarming people after Katrina.

[RobinOfKingston]

They government would do it in a heartbeat.

One of these days some learned individual needs to do a treatise on who "the government" really is.