Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Why "a free state" as opposed to "the state"? [View all]DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It's not only how many people COULD rise up in arms.
How many people WOULD rise up in arms to topple the regime.
How many people WOULD rise up in arms to defend the regime.
Can you even imagine a scenario where 80 million people share an opinion? And they share it so vehemently that they are willing to pay the monetary, logistical and moral costs of actually killing people over it?
The only scenario that comes even close was the US Civil War, and that war was orchestrated by one government to fight another government.
Let's say, a really big terror-attack happens (way bigger than 9/11) and Obama postpones the 2016 election by a year while cranking the police-state up to 11.
Even though he was baselessly demonized as a tyrant before and even though he would come awfully close to being a real tyrant now, how many Tea Partiers and Republicans would actually be willing to grab their M16s and start shooting cops and US-soldiers in the streets?
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
The 2nd Amendment is useless, because you can't fight that kind of tyranny with a gun.