Gun Control & RKBA

It's difficult to envision any plausible scenario of widespread* insurrection in this country that included an intact US military. Any cause that provoked the uprising of even a significant minority of Americans would do the same for our military. The military would fragment, and some would be fighting with the insurrectionists. There are countless examples of such in relatively recent history.

Civilian weapons are far from irrelevant in such scenarios, especially when you factor in the difficulties a fragmented military would have in keeping complex weapons and communications systems intact in such circumstances.

*As opposed to a few yahoos taking to the hills with their rifles...

The FBI and DHS, on the other hand, have 35,000 and 188,000 employees, respectively. The DHS also employs about 200,000 contractors. Only a fraction of these employees are actually armed agents, a rather small fraction in the case of DHS. In a widespread insurrection, those are utterly trivial numbers. You can add in the c. 700,000 armed LEOs to that total...and still not have a comparatively large force (and they'd be spread out all across the country, obviously).

Of course, where we agree is here:



Yep...we're kept fat, happy, and complacent. A whole bunch of factors would have to go south real bad, real fast for Americans to contemplate rebellion. It's not in corporate best interests, y'see...