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Originally Posted by Watching The World Burn
I tend to agree with most of what you said, except this, unless it were widescale. And I struggle to come up with a scenario where that would happen - I think more likely it is pockets of resistance / revolt, not widespread. Because I think most would go "Ah, well, it's annoying but it doesn't affect me so deeply that I need to try to fight the national guard / police / army / whatever the opposing force is". But some of you would. The numbers would be smaller. And honestly, can't see that pocket winning against the government and the weapons class they have vs your firearms. Just radically different.
Now, to be fair, I think it'd cause a lot of damage simply because it probably wouldn't be easy to identify the revolting group and so you guys could adopt guerilla warfare techniques which would surely inflict pain on the government, but ultimately, they'd still be successful in implementing the thing that you were revolting against in my opinion.
You can make an argument that the opposing force isn't going to shoot their revolting neighbour / friend / family member etc, but again, can't imagine the government would be stupid enough to use a local force, and if it isn't local, then there's little connection.
I don't know - I just don't really buy the revolt argument - not at least where it is successful. Maybe you guys will prove me wrong sooner rather than later the way it seems like things are going.
I've always figured Australia has natural barriers to immigration - if pretty much every moving thing in that land has the ability to jack you up at a [...]
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Well, I can tell you that the armed forces, law enforcement departments, etc. are predominantly staffed with patriotic/conservative types. Would some turn against the people in a people vs. the government scenario? Sure!….but most of us wouldn’t. You can’t have a fighting force if your personnel are unwilling to fight for your governmental cause. Heck, people chose to quit over the idea of enforcing COVID restrictions on people. Look at rioters. When a large number of unruly people start engaging in unruly things, they far outnumber us in government. Add patriotic types to that and the government at large would not be able to control it without large scale deployment (…
aka…a willingness to kill masses of people).