“how about if that 1% was heavily armed and actually represented something like 1 million men who would resist your presidential edict with force? That means that your (at least arguably illegal) act would result in hundreds of thousands of deaths at a the very least - would you do it then?”
Indeed - they see such an outcome as even more justification for doing so: anyone who would oppose them to that degree for any reason must be neutered with extreme prejudice.
b> "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, "
John F. Kennedy