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If America went to shit enough that people needed to take up arms to protect themselves against the government, around half of the people with guns would be on
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
If America went to shit enough that people needed to take up arms to protect themselves against the government, around half of the people with guns would be on the side of the government. It would not be a battle of the people vs the state, it would be half of the people against the other half, but with only one side getting military backing (unless the miltary itself also split).
- sokoloff 7y agoI think there's reasonable reason to believe that if things got to that point that the military would be likely to have split allegiance.
- noir_lord 7y agoSplit yes, down the middle or remotely evenly who knows. A confounding factor is that both the US and UK militaries have been fighting extended insurrection 'policing' actions for much of the last two decades, so you have an army that is used to been an occupying force. All that said a smart military commander would never use local troops in their own backyard anyway.
- inflatableDodo 7y ago>All that said a smart military commander would never use local troops in their own backyard anyway. Is why the local regiments were confined to barracks, the last time the UK felt the need to put tanks on the streets of Glasgow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square
- noir_lord 7y agoFunnily enough that was what I was thinking about when I wrote my post.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoDon't you just love it when that happens. We may have to get better at it though. It may be the only way around the surveillance balloons.