I say the police would turn tail and run at the first whiff of armed opposition.
They'd be just like those gun-wielding hoodies who piled up trying to get out of the jewelry store when an armed granny came after them.
The New Orleans police took off like scalded dogs during and after Katrina. That's a big city police department, isn't it? I don't recall the LAPD rushing in to quell the Rodney Simpson riots, that took Korean shop-owners and their employees. Even as far back as Watts, nobody was in any hurry to risk their lives suppressing insurrection. And you know the LAPD of that day was chock full of World War II and Korean War veterans who'd seen the elephant. Are a bunch of the Desert Storm/Iraq/Afghanistan veterans wearing blue or brown today? Sure, isolated incidents can be handled easily by paramilitary SWAT teams and the like (see Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc.) but wholesale, full-scale rebellion? There aren't enough police and military in the whole wide world to suppress even 10 million armed civilians, many of them veterans, hunters, fishermen, shooting sports enthusiasts, security guards, outdoorsman and/or a combination of those, much less 50 or 100 million. Just the DEER HUNTERS in this country would constitute the largest standing army in the world, by a factor of 5 or more. Think about it: 25 million armed men & women, most of whom have high-powered rifles with scopes, camouflage gear, ATVs, camps, knowledge of their locale and wood sense.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
“I say the police would turn tail and run at the first whiff of armed opposition.”
Trigger-happy cops “in fear for their lives” suddenly not so trigger-happy?