The first Civil war cost a full 2% of the population. If that number repeats, that would mean in excess of 6 million dead based on today’s population. Scary thought indeed.
I’m glad someone else sees revolution as something that must be avoided unless there is absolutely no other choice. The federal government may be out of control, but it isn’t rounding up people for extermination, going door to door to confiscate weapons, or committing large scale violence against us. People act like we live in a terrible tyranny. That is simply not true, and we should continue to try and resolve our differences peacefully. Civil disobedience is one thing. Raising weapons against fellow Americans is something totally different and much, much worse!
Besides, no one can predict what would happen if violence starts. Do we really think we have the right kind of people in America today to recreate the founding? More likely, it would spell the end of the republic and the onset of a true totalitarian government. Instead of freeing us, it could enslave us! I’m not saying Americans should never resort to violence, but we certainly shouldn’t be the ones to initiate it and things are not as bad as some seem to think.