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To: Windflier
90 million armed citizens versus 600,000 federal troops. Ummm, which side would have the aircraft, tanks, artillery, etc. etc.? Which side is a trained military? I'd bet on the federal troops if it came to that.
53 posted on 11/17/2012 12:59:11 PM PST by conservaterian (NOW can we have a conservative candidate?????)
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To: conservaterian

You’d see defections from red-state active duty military en masse. That plus the state National Guards that would be the cadres for a future military. But there wouldn’t be a shooting war. Would make for bad TV in this instant video age.


62 posted on 11/17/2012 2:05:44 PM PST by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: conservaterian
We had aircraft, tanks, artillery, etc. etc. They had the will to fight against those odds. Do you still want to make that bet?
75 posted on 11/17/2012 5:28:59 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'll give y'all 90 days for the wounds to heal; then we start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: conservaterian
"90 million armed citizens versus 600,000 federal troops."

Ummm, which side would have the aircraft, tanks, artillery, etc. etc.? Which side is a trained military? I'd bet on the federal troops if it came to that.

If the odds favor the federals so well, explain to me why they haven't already declared martial law and come for our guns?

You assume that most federal troops would obey the treasonous order to occupy their own country, and subjugate their fellow Americans by brute force.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it wouldn't go down that way at all. An order like that would cause a meltdown of the military. Any traitor who obeyed such evil would likely be shot dead by loyal American troops. The good guys would lose some too, but not many, in comparison to the turncoats.

And you can bet that those troops who remained loyal to the Constitution, would have millions of armed American citizens ready to back them up at a moment's notice.

War game it out in your head, using some simple logic and reasoning. It wouldn't even be a contest, which is why it's never been (and never will be) tried.

80 posted on 11/17/2012 6:05:37 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: conservaterian
As of 2011, the US Army and US Marine Corps have a total of about 4500 M1A1 and M1A2 tanks in service, with approximately the same number of M1 tanks in storage. The US Army operates about 80% of the total US tanks.

More math: That is 90 tanks per state. About 4 tank companies per state.

Now lets' do the math by county shall we?

There are 2,992 counties in the United States

That means 1.5 tanks per county. LOL.

89 posted on 11/18/2012 6:45:56 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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