Know this. This has been going on for a while and is more than just the ODimwit Admin. The danger we run is thinking that other Admins, ANY other Admins, would be better. They won’t. They too will do this to us.
Also, thinking that someone we with our guns can have ANY effect on tanks and drones is almost laughable. No offense meant, but that is a fact. They will let you keep your guns because they know that you.we can not stop them. Period. I’s been many a year since I was a Prosecutor, but even the less armed police/National Guard then would have zero problem stopping any size uprising.
It is time for us to break the trap they keep us in i.e. us against them. We need to pay CLOSE attention to the candidates we support. Just because someone says want we like, doesn’t mean they are on our side.
While most here get it, there are so many that don’t realize what grave danger we are in ... and it transcends Odimwit.
I have long studied asymmetric warfare as it applies to insurgencies and revolutions. Your fear of what is coming is justified, but your pessimism of outcomes is not. A protracted, armed insurgency by an industrious, resourceful populace has a better than good chance of throwing off tyranny.
Remember, there are many of us in their ranks. Many. Our puny rifles cannot stop a tank, but an EFP can. We are Americans who have crazy skills. Hell, the average Cletus can build an EFP with what he has in his workshop.
Check your mail.
Undeniable fact: Afghanistan.
Stone age fighters have not been pacified by the very weapons and forces you are so afraid of.
They are just flesh and they can be killed. They have to sleep and relieve themselves and eat and the 'puny' weapons you speak of can easily penetrate their body armor.
There are many precedents that invalidate your proclamations. The Taliban are doing just fine now aren't they? AQ in Iraq were never fully eliminated and they're making a comeback now as well. The Vietnamese who held out against our military would beg to differ with your assessment.
Although it wasn't our military that is to blame for failed “police” actions over the last several decades, our military was only able to accomplish so much against overwhelmingly outgunned opponents due to several factors, the primary ones being the style of war being waged and the effect of a subversive media determined to keep morale for such actions at the lowest ebb possible.
Several hundred million arms in this country are more than enough to destroy any portion of government or our armed forces if there are enough willing patriots that are prepared to stand against them.
Granted that the gloves will come off when our government wages war against their own citizens, the same will hold true on both sides. While the government has the heavy weapons and tech, citizens have numbers which is a burden that will be difficult to overcome without the use of WMD’s, and when the conflict comes to full steam, the government may very will decide to use WMD’s as they will be facing tactics that would not occur in modern wars following previously laid down rules between countries. No, it will get very vicious and both sides will commit unbelievable atrocities like nothing most could bring themselves to imagine.
You have very little regard for the courage, determination and ingenuity of the average American, IMO.