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Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte
Thom, do you honestly think that the US Military could--or more importantly, would--handle an uprising in large numbers?
"I was just following orders" may work great when shooting Iraqi insurgents but I suspect it would be a different story if they were asked to shoot at Joe Sixpack.
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No chance could they or would they. We ain't gonna pull all our forward-deployed forces back stateside. What's already here would not be able to handle a serious uprising or civil unrest. If law and order were truly out the window, most Americans would be stunned to see what kind of firepower is in civilian hands and then comes out of the woodwork. Just go to any decent size gun show and you'll get small sampling of what's out there. And that's just the stuff people are willing to show off in public under the watchful eyes of the undercover BATF agents. The stuff that's really out there would floor you.