[arthurus]

if one assumes that those military people would fire upon fellow citizens

The traditional military will likely not be put in that position. The reliables among the officers may lead such an attack but it will be with FEMA troops, mostly recruited from the barrios and the ghettos. They will happily to shoot anyone.

[crz]

It will be a bath. They will be pinned down in the cities...right where one would want them to be pinned down.