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> For a single person, or a small group? I know of no one who believes that. Fair enough. Neither do I. I meant it as a rhetorical question because it's such a
by skewart 11y ago
> For a single person, or a small group? I know of no one who believes that.
Fair enough. Neither do I. I meant it as a rhetorical question because it's such an absurd thing to think, but I realize that wasn't necessarily clear.
> The US military is composed predominately of gun owners :).
So is the thinking that people in the military would disobey commands and join the uprising? (Or are you being entirely facetious, like the smile might suggest?)
> From my perspective, this is almost pure cognitive dissonance.
Exactly. But there are presumably smart people who make this argument. There's got to some kind of reasoning behind it. Right?
- unethical_ban 11y ago>So is the thinking that people in the military would disobey commands and join the uprising? Yes. tl;have work to do: The knowledge of the potential for large portions of the population to resist oppression by use of small arms is sufficient to deter governments from radical, direct assaults on human rights.
- pjc50 11y agoThe knowledge of the potential for large portions of the population to resist oppression by use of small arms is sufficient to deter governments from radical, direct assaults on human rights No it isn't; the US has massive gun ownership and direct assaults on human rights. Especially of nonwhite people. The US never really "signed up to" human rights in the modern (postwar) sense.
- thatswrong0 11y agoIt really depends on the circumstances, but I severely doubt that the military would not fracture if it were ordered to attack US citizens.
- firethief 11y agoYeah, if the order came today. They haven't been programmed for that. It would take at least a few months of intensive witchhunting (probably for Domestic Terror) to work up to it -- or the right convenient incident to spark adequate mass hysteria.
- pjc50 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings ?