To: Bilow who wrote (688707 ) 12/17/2012 10:03:48 PM From: J_F_Shepard Read Replies (1) | Respond to 1) Yes, the gun nuts could overthrow the government. In fact, it's been done before, at least for several years and several states. Find a history book that goes back to 1860 to find out more The Civil War? What government was overthrown, the Confederates tried but were defeated with millions of dead and wounded. They were still using muskets and front loading cannon, rifles just coming in. 2) The basic fact of "democracy" is "majority rule". That means that the majority gets to tell the minority what to do. The majority can't infringe on the rights of the minority...they can win in voting but the vote may have to stand before the Supremes.... Majorities tried to keep segregation and the National Guard was used to enforce the law.... The US military is a red state military and in a civil war, it will fight on the side of the red states. A major reason why it took so long for the far better armed North to beat the much smaller South was that the South took the cream of the US military. Robert E. Lee, West Point, class of 1829. For the details, see: The military will obey the orders of the President.....when they don't you will have your revolution.. Not gonna happen in the US, especially for the values you represent. For the case of guns, the gun owning population is a minority in the country. With 300 million guns?A major reason why it took so long for the far better armed North to beat the much smaller South was that the South took the cream of the US military. Robert E. Lee, West Point, class of 1829. For the details, see Robert E. Lee was an anachronism still fighting wars like the Romans did, ie straight line formations standing up in the face of cannon fire and rifle fire from behind fortified positions..... He got his ass kicked in Gettysburg for doing that and cost the South hundreds of thousands of casualties... At Antietam he lost over 10,000 of his 38,000 troops and he had to withdraw to Virginia... The concept that a bunch of blue state atheists, in fear of their lives and "loathing the military", are going to disarm the extremely well armed and enthusiastic red states, even without the assistance of the US military, is ridiculous. Right, God will protect you like he did those kindergarten kids in Connecticut...claims on the part of leftists that the blue states are responsible for most of the technology in the US. This is true to an extent but not true in practice. For example, California is definitely a blue state. This is because the high population cities vote Democratic. But high tech engineers do not generally like to live in cities. They live in suburbs. Hi-tech engineers are generally liberal and live all over CA, esp. Silicon Valley...For example, there are 765,000 local police officers. The number of people employed by BATF (including other than officers sworn to uphold the law) is under 10,000. The FBI has 36,000 people. If the local police won't enforce it, the Feds aren't going to even try. Remember Little Rock and Ole Miss? That was the National Guard that enforced the law and there wasn't much fight from the Red states.... So dream on, goober.
