“What few who would be willing to shoot back would be squashed by the government.”
I disagree with “few”. If government one day wants a civil war by turning on the people, former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria among other conflicts will be nothing to a second American Civil War or Revolution. The key for the left is pacification and dumbing down the people while incrementally shredding the Constitution. If the government intends to “squash” fellow Americans good luck because they could never handle insurgency and if this includes the military how many would point their weapon at another American for American Totalitarianism and Socialism? Nobody that I served with would. I do think this is why Obama did what he did with the military. Maybe a General or two would follow through but if SHTF, their shelf life is small.
If government one day wants a civil war by turning on the people, former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria among other conflicts will be nothing to a second American Civil War or Revolution.
They want to accomplish the disarmament gradually, over generations, as each new generation of school children are taught that guns are bad and government is the provider of all good things.
It has only been partially successful so far. The majority of the population now accepts that full auto firearms should not be allowed in private hands.
The left and the media are constantly preaching that ordinary citizens should not be allowed “weapons of war”, even though those weapons are specifically protected by the Second Amendment.
It is a mistake to think the government will attempt to disarm everyone at once. They won’t.
They want people to bury their guns. It is just as good as confiscating them.
When a grandson finds them 50 years from now, they believe he will quickly turn them over to the government in disgust, as is happening in England and Wales.
We must win in the battleground of ideas before we can win in a Civil War.