Do you think all these gun nuts making threats will lead to a national Ruby Ridge situation?

[quaker bill]

157. Poor examples

You are probably correct that a very small group with extreme dedication, considerable skill, and absolute discipline might survive for a time and do significant damage. Such a group might be a threat to the general population, but would be no threat to the government, and would probably make government more popular.

The IRA is a poor example as out of kind as they were carrying forward ethnic and religious strife with long standing in an era where the intelligence tools available to law enforcement were comparatively weak. The german example also was of a very different era.

My prediction does not consider a paralell group arising here as a serious possibility. These are guys who apparently like to rant on the internet and think they are going to overthrow the government. Waco Texas comes more to mind, except that the government is unlikely to provide sufficient notice or engage in enough delay to allow CNN to set up a mobile newsroom. The coverage will be almost all after action.

To the extent such a movement attempts to form, it will be nipped in the bud, with prejudice. That is my prediction.