Okay, the exercise, for clarity's sake --
There are 300 million or more legally acquired guns in the possession of 150 million ordinary Americans (many of whom are military veterans with training and good sense) who are keenly aware of their constitutional right to have them, AND of the government's drooling desire to confiscate them.
If every single available armed and uniformed dogsbody that even tangentially belonged to the United States Government were to set out on the Great Disarmament, they could barely muster 2 million, which includes the Armed Forces (a large number of which will refuse unconstitutional orders to deploy against their own citizens). Against 150 million, most of whom will fight rather than hand over their guns.
What does this look like? Nothing less than combat teams raiding American homes, one at a time, faced with flying bullets at every door. Say teams of 4, meaning about 500,000 teams, going to homes to confiscate guns from each resident, of 150 million residents.
Do the math. While all military posts would be skeleton-crewed or deserted, and most armed functions of government would be on hold -- meaning we would be seriously weak and open to foreign intervention, a moment for which the Chinese in particular are watching and have BEEN watching -- our uniformed guys, from soldiers to black ops teams from government agencies, would be weapons-hot in our own neighborhoods. Would people go to work and school as normal, under THAT circumstance? No.
They would huddle up at home, the unarmed homes posting hopeful signs on the door saying No Guns Here, to keep from being attacked by their government. Work would come to a screeching halt, as the commute would be interrupted by military vehicles and troops everywhere. The economy would collapse, lacking labor on the job, which would reflect poorly on tax revenue -- most needed when deploying expensive units on a new and unheard-of job.
And a team of 4 could raid maybe 3 homes a day? 5? At least the compliant homes... what about fights? What about casualties?
How long for 500,000 teams to raid 150 million homes?
A year, maybe more, during which the country comes to a dark, cold, economic FULL STOP. But... the people not yet raided? Long before the year is out, they're organizing, counter-attacking, and outnumbering the government squads by a LOT.
The longer this action takes, the more opposition the government has, and the less motivation its troops retain.
To make this move on an armed American people is to invite failure, loss, and revolution. It is an intrinsically tyrannical move, and of course Jefferson told us we have the right, even the duty, to throw off a tyrannical government and replace it with one that better achieves the purposes of guarding our external security and... leaving us alone.
I hope you're beginning to see that government cannot win that war. Armed, active confiscation simply will not happen. They know they will lose, AND be removed from their positions of power.
This is why they are so anxious to use these tragedies (if in fact they are not actively CAUSED by government, a possibility I have not completely rejected) to get gun laws passed. Gun LAWS are their only hope of disarming the public, and disarming the public is their only hope of permanent, unassailable power.
The more children die in a hail of bullets, the BETTER OFF the Democrats are in their pursuit of gun control. What an awful thing to have to say, but it is only true.
Now we see why “more security” is the answer for every potential problem, EXCEPT keeping kids safe in schools. For THAT problem, the ONLY ANSWER, apparently, is gun control. I wonder how many children have died since the government might have made a decision to pursue a national standard of school security that would have protected them?
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I couldn’t agree more, Dave!
I have always believed this opinion. And many, many others that I know do, too. You are right on, my friend.