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“....too many wannabe Rambo SWAT cops itching for any excuse to play Army.”
Two can play “Army.” Or, more correctly, “Army vs. Insurgent.” Where the “Army” man and his family and friends never know when and where the sniper’s bullet may come from.
Wanted, more patriots:
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?....”
Come and Take It, Beto.
But once the raids start, things are going to get a lot more difficult and dangerous over the next few days and weeks for the people conducting the raids.
Are they going to set up a security perimeter hundreds of yards out from their raids? Set up counter snipers? Are they going to travel in armored convoys to/from their un-Constitutional confiscations?
Even worse - or more effective at stopping this un-Constitutional nonsense... Once word gets out that it is XYZ organization conducting the raids (be it local police, sheriff, etc.)...heck everyone knows where they live. Their neighbors all know who they are. These guys aren't dumb. They know there are lots armed people out there who would look at raids and confiscation as a triggering event.
How many times would a sheriff's deputy have to come home and find out someone had put a round into the quarter panel of his wife's car on the way home from picking up the kids from soccer practice? How many times would he want to wake up to flat tires on his car? A fake (water-filled) molotov cocktail tossed onto his porch? Sure, some would keep going, and it would end in bloodshed. Others would get the message right quick. The raids would stop due to "unavailability of resources" to continue them.
Without turning the US into cold war era East Germany there is no way they could enforce this long term. No way.
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“....too many wannabe Rambo SWAT cops itching for any excuse to play Army.”
Two can play “Army.” Or, more correctly, “Army vs. Insurgent.” Where the “Army” man and his family and friends never know when and where the sniper’s bullet may come from.
When Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia was “merely” the primary leader of the Yugoslav partisans against the Germans, he was interviewed. The reporter asked him, “How are your partisans, armed only with old rifles, going to take on the Germans and their new Panzers?”
Tito’s response was both funny and demonstrated his tactical and strategic genius: “Well, when the Germans get out of their new Panzers to take a piss, my partisans will shoot them with their old rifles.”
NO ONE is invulnerable...and only the biggest idiot in the world chooses to take on an enemy on the enemy’s terms.