[FrankR]

It’ll be a Chinese fire drill...thousands of inexperienced gun owners trying to emulate movies and shooting each other in the process.

Back during the War Between the States, most combatants on both sides knew how to shoot guns, based on their experience hunting for game.

Today, their experience is mostly on X-Box.

I’m sure they think “war” is just another video game, and if they get “killed”, they can regenerate themselves in the next level, or, just re-boot.

[Ransomed]

The poorest are the most likely to be obese, have smart phones, and are used to air conditioning. Hard for me to imagine sustained and widespread civil unrest occurring while these conditions persist. It’s possible I guess, you could say there could be a first time since this is the only time these conditions have occurred.

I have heard that there were just a certain % of soldiers or conscripts that just couldn’t pull the trigger when pointing a gun at a person in the past. Don’t know if it is true. But I wonder if widespread experience with combat video games would make it easier to attempt, no matter how ineptly it is done.

Freegards

[Romans Nine]

First thing to remember is a civil war would probably involve less than 5% of the population. Second is that the types you describe will have no interest in any type of self sacrifice so they won’t be involved. Nearly every single young man I know is very proficient with a firearm.

Progressive commie liberal higher learning ivory wall types that would like to control the people not so much.

To consider with some degree of reality what civil upheaval in this country would actually look like would be an eye opener for most people.

[from occupied ga]

most combatants on both sides knew how to shoot guns

. Not true. Most southerners knew, but the city boys from the north not so much. Supposedly the National rifle association was formed after the war (ironically in New York City) because of this lack of firearms familiarity.

[freeandfreezing]

You mean guys like the combat veterans who served in Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria along with a few other places like Somalia? I always thought they would have a pretty good handle on what fighting was like, and how important it was to avoid it.

Also, if you want to understand what a modern civil war looks like don't read about the battle of Gettysburg.

Preventing violence should be everyone's primary goal.