With most of the adult male population being woefully out of shape if not morbidly obese, there won’t be many combatants to fill the streets.
I see these “militia” types and they’re laughable when the shooting starts. Most will die of heart attacks and not bullets.
This nation ain’t 1941!
And by Pearl Harbor, we’d already been ramping up for war for almost two years. Conscription was already in place, and our factories had been cranking out tanks, ships and planes for Britain and the Soviet Union.
It doesn’t take a trained warrior to don a suicide vest or fire an AK—all it takes is dedication and the knowledge that death is going to happen anyway in a police state. If you knew you were destined for the camps and death by hard labor—why not take out as many of the bad guys as you can?