Reply #48: While I agree, you have to consider ...

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that our government has invested an enormous amount of money into training some very capable soldiers over the last few decades. Many of these soldiers have gained battlefield experience in several foreign hell holes and could make an effective and extremely dangerous insurgent group.

We also have trained a large number of people in our special forces and many of these soldiers have successfully conducted classified missions in foreign countries. Of course, there are the snipers we have trained and who have also proven themselves on the battlefield.

The average gun owner or militia member may have a Walter Mitty fantasy of rebellion and as you suggest would not last long. These are not the people the government would have to worry about.

And of course, in a situation where a truly dictatorial and tyrannical government would have replaced our current one, there is no guarantee that the military and the police would not decide to support the insurgency. The are a lot of patriots in the military.

Also it's important to remember that the United States is the most armed nation in the world.

The United States has the largest number of guns in private hands of any country in the world with 60 million people owning a combined arsenal of over 200 million firearms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/ihavearightto/four_b/casestudy_art29.shtml

USA Buys Enough Guns in 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army
Law abiding US citizens bought on average 3,177,256 guns every 3 months in 2008.

EveryTown, USA - -(AmmoLand.com)- In just 3 months Americans bought enough guns to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian army’s combined.

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto WWII

You also bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition in just the month of December 2008. Yeah that is right, that is Billion with a “B”. This number takes no accounting of reloading or reloaded ammunition.

This is an evaluation of overall firearms and ammunition purchases based on low end numbers per Federal NIC instacheck data base Statistics. The numbers presented are only PART of the overall numbers of arms and ammunition that have been sold. The actual numbers are much higher.
http://www.ammoland.com/2009/04/22/usa-buys-enough-guns-in-3-months-to-outfit-the-entire-chinese-and-indian-army/

Of course, that's today. Since I don't foresee any need for a revolution in the next 10 to 20 years, we might not have the same number of trained individuals in the future and possibly the gun control groups will be able to reverse the trend by then and successfully ban and confiscate firearms.