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That is a naive and simply incorrect assumption. History of just the 20th century has shown that the biggest threat to civilians is their own military. Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia...one could go on and on.

Can’t happen here?

Hooverville.

Kent State.

Nazi Germany had uniformed Gestapo. The USSR had MVD or uniformed KGB (remember the bread riots I mentioned). Poland had ZOMO, Romania had the Securitate. None of those were regular Army. The state had to call out special security forces made up of sociopaths and thugs. Ordinary troops wouldn’t do it. Fortunately we don’t—yet—have a large standing force of uniformed, psychopathic “security forces” to put down uprisings. As for Kent State, these were jittery, poorly trained “weekend warriors.” When you give a bunch of Barney Fifes loaded M-16s, it won’t end well. As for Hooverville, had that happened now, the Bonus Army would have been armed, and would have ended in a standoff. Guns were harder to get in large quantities in the 1930s.

"Fortunately we don’t—yet—have a large standing force of uniformed, psychopathic “security forces” to put down uprisings.

The BATFE would suit that purpose quite well.

"As for Kent State, these were jittery, poorly trained “weekend warriors.” When you give a bunch of Barney Fifes loaded M-16s, it won’t end well.

The Ohio national guard had been deployed to Vietnam and been used to quell prison riots. These weren't green untested troops. Further, while I'm not a trusting person, I am a patriot and I wouldn't call members of the national guard "jittery, poorly trained, or weekend warriors".

As for Hooverville, had that happened now, the Bonus Army would have been armed, and would have ended in a standoff. Guns were harder to get in large quantities in the 1930s.

"As for Hooverville, had that happened now, the Bonus Army would have been armed, and would have ended in a standoff. Guns were harder to get in large quantities in the 1930s."

Gun ownership rates were higher in the 1930s then they are today, guns were much more readily available for purchase, with almost no purchase restrictions. Given enough money one could have ordered crates of Thompson submachine guns and 1911's. The M1917 Enfield, the service rifle at the time, could be mail ordered.

The state had to call out special security forces made up of sociopaths and thugs.

That is how a hard right POTUS annihilates the marxists and queers.

We are way beyond a political solution to the domestic communist problem and their homosexual and black shock troop.