I don't think that many cops would assist in a mass disarming. At the moment, they storm a house here and there, but most cops have never done anything but pull over speeders. I think they'd balk if they were ordered to take every gun in America.
Hell, a lot of them would join the resistence.
I suppose we’ll disagree but I think many more will find great delight in going house to house than you think. Just look at how badly they acted during Katrina. Given the opportunity most police will do the wrong thing. Some will refuse b/c they’re scared and only a tiny minority will refuse b/c its the wrong thing to do. Hey, they know who pays the bills and pulls the chain. They’ll go along to get along using the age old excuse...I was just following orders.
Then theres the military which no one likes to talk about. I think there are some stellar leaders (and followers) but also an almost equally sized crop of commies in our military. The later will join the police. What the others will do is uncertain.
In any event weapon confiscation on a mass scale will be the major hairball. I suspect it’ll be couched in the best of intensions w/ full court propaganda to match. That makes it palatable to most of the silly sheep. Those who are left will find the going tough....but not impossible. I REALLY hope it doesn’t come that though.
You admit that they have already disarmed, without balking, individual families here and there, yet you still don’t believe they would not engage in the same behavior on a larger scale?
I think the police, from the smallest township PD up to various Federal agencies, will all follow orders. Any orders. Even orders to disarm all US citizens. A few will quit, a few more will grumble ... but they'll do it.
Don't kid yourself otherwise.
Oh, and the military?
They'll do it, too.
Gotta keep those terrorists from causing trouble.
There's a reason for the Posse Commitatus Act, and for the Second, Third, and Fourth Amendments.
The military has been training to do it. They don’t go house to house to disarm people. They go house to house looking for terrorists, weapons dealers, or other “bad” people. Part of the process is to collect weapons.
“Hey I play the bagpipes (badly!)”
Is there any other way?
Likely not as badly as I do. I need a lot more time with a practice chanter, but I've been using it picking my banjo chops back up instead.