The military will put down anyone on the right,wether it is gun confiscation, CWII or whatever.
You do not seem to realize those volunteering for the military these days are not the unwilling draftees of the 60's.
My point is that a war has to have a starting point, something that initiates violence, and the government, and the forces it commands, will take a side.
The American Civil War happened because of a breakdown in the chain of command (I mean, that’s why there were two armies that could face off against each other).
I have not heard a civil conflict scenario yet that splits the Army and Marine Corps. If “conservatives” are fighhting “liberals” because of an imaginary event (assassination of the President, for example), there will still be a Commander in Chief, there will still be a Secretary of Defense, and they will be giving orders.
What they order the military to do is probably what they will do.
And, most likely, they will be on one side or the other.
In a Red Dawn scenario, where the country is invaded and there are areas with no US forces, I can see the deer hunter army being effective in the way a lot of posters here imagine.
But I cannot come up with a CW II scenario where the military forms up into two armies.
And it’s no leftist fantasy to believe that, if the civil government means for an unorganized group of men with rifles to disperse and is able to transmit legal orders through an intact chain of command to make that happen, that the deer hunters will outfight real soldiers.