Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The Pro-Gun Movement's Total Disregard for Our Constitution [View all]holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... these days, there always has been.
One of the disadvantages of the American two-party system is that no matter how big your tent, you can't include every permutation of opinion on every subject.
There are many pro-RKBA Democrats (including myself), there are climate-denier Democrats, there are fiscal conservative Democrats, there are pro-life Democrats. There are Republicans who are pro-choice, support gun control and social programs. There are simply more hot-button issues than there are parties and not everyone from either parties fully accepts their party line.
When I say, "popular insurrection", I don't mean a survivalist compound full of heavily-armed polytheists with 2-years worth of tinned beef, a million rounds of ammunition, and a slightly off-centre version of biblical prophecy. I mean a truly dissatisfied populace from all walks of life who feel a real and present threat from government. A populace so widely-dissatisfied that the urge to fight will transcend party loyalties.
One example I can think of would be fictional scenario where a future US President attempts to dissolve congress and seize supreme power for the Executive Branch. That is the kind of disregard for the Constitution that would unite Democrats and Republicans (hopefully because the Republicans have most of the guns we would need to fight) into a popular insurrection to overthrow that President. Under such a scenario, the military would (initially and nominally) be under the control of that president, but a large percentage of the military would refuse to follow such a path and join with civilian insurrectionists to uphold the Constitutional division of powers.