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(17,493 posts)if 10% decided to launch an insurrection you would have 8 million individuals causing a considerable amount of havoc in some form of guerrilla warfare. A high percentage of these "patriots" have military training courtesy of our armed forces and have had actual combat experience in places like Iraq and Afghanistan or even Vietnam. They would not be concerned in the least about the fact that an insurrection was illegal.
It is also possible that some red states might decide to leave the Union and while you might not miss them, the disruption to our economy might be enormous and any rational person does not wish to live through a civil war.
Many members of the gun culture have long feared that our government would eventually try to ban and confiscate firearms and this would be the beginning of a dictatorship or a tyranny. They already have stockpiled weapons and ammo in caches.