They’ll be defeated swiftly.
I sympathize with you but I’ve also heard those words before.
People took picnic baskets to watch Bull Run because it was supposed to be quick, fun and easy.
Terrible dilemma, if it were to happen.
In decades past, I was a soldier in a combat unit of the National Guard in one of the states. There were only a few battalions counting regulars. The remainder in the regular Army, Guard and Reserve were trained to provide various services other than combat.
There were tens of thousands more civilian hunters around us in that state. They were our friends and neighbors.
About 94% of us in the few combat units were very poor with marksmanship as compared with rural, civilian hunters. As with others of some rural background, I’d learned to be better than most with ballistics while finishing growing up and living early adult years in rural areas. Qualifying with high scores on the ranges of Army posts was easy from the first time. Same with tactical considerations. We National Guardsmen were very noisy, obtrusive and clustered together.
But we did lean more conservative and old fashioned than the average person in the population around us. In our initial training under the regular Army, we were first instructed on the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
We were taught to refuse to follow any unlawful order issued by anyone. That was emphasized. A quotation of the Enlisted soldier’s oath follows.
I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
Forgot to mention something. My training was from the end of the 1980s through the mid-1990s, and I was in my thirties. And yes, we could easily have cleaned up any small groups of evil insurrectionists using fast mobility.
But much has changed in our U.S.A. since then. Very much.