I guess we’ll get to see where all those 80 million guns bought since November 2008 (plus the 400-500 million that were already around) went to, huh? We couldn’t pacify three smallish counties where the populace had to beg, borrow, steal or manufacture firearms (Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan) so how is the same military going to go against hundreds of millions of well-armed, well-fed, healthy civilians with automobiles, night vision goggles, GPS, cell phones, CB radios, ATVs, walkie-talkies, plenty of survival foodstuffs and camouflage clothing?
I bet Korean and Chinese store owners are stocked up.
I love the way you think, man. You’re absolutely spot-on. This is gonna be fun.
“We couldn’t pacify three smallish counties where the populace had to beg, borrow, steal or manufacture firearms (Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan). . . “
It may be that when turning the military against its own citizens, the leaders who tied the hands of the armed forces with “rules of engagement” will decide to do whatever it takes to hold onto power. Witness the Civil War and Sherman’s march to the sea where the army was turned loose on the civilian population. Or in more recent times Ruby Ridge and Waco demonstrate on a small scale that our modern government will use deadly force if threatened against citizens. I have no question the progressive government will be extremely cruel suppressing a real or created rebellion. It was Obama’s neighbor who said they’d have to kill 20 million citizens to establish their utopian state in the US.
Recall a majority of the Vietnamese, Iraq’s, and Afghani citizens were used to living in primitive conditions and were much more capable of living off the land than most of today’s suburbanite’s. If you live in a suburb and don’t have electrical and water coming to your house, gasoline for your SUV, or food at the local supermarket it doesn’t matter how many guns or how much ammunition you may have in the basement. A government intent on submitting a rebellion will gladly starve the population into submission. As long as it controls the supply chain of fuel, electricity, water, and food a 21st totalitarian government will have control of a population dependent on that supply chain.
In my mind the question remains. Will the average soldier in the US military today take up arms against the civilian population? If so, I suspect the government is fully capable of suppressing a rebellion. If the military joins a rebellion, the opposite is true. Witness Egypt this week.
got to get me some night vision goggles and my trijicon nights and burnt out.