[762X51]

How would any of that stuff be effective against 10 million men with scoped deer rifles who took their shots and kept their mouths shut?

PERFECTLY summed up in one tidy sentence. There is a limited supply of people trained to operate and maintain some of the technologically superior devices and as they begin to disappear there won't be anybody anxious to replace them. There won't be a front line. They will have to sleep with one eye open. There won't be a safe haven. Armed Patriots will be everywhere. They will lose.

[TigersEye]

I don't see how any of that technology could do anything other than gather some evidence after the fact like cops taking notes at the scene of a crime. And not very effectively in that regard either.

Predator drones? Ten million of them ready to strike at the report from one rifle on the ground? Pretty pricey and still after the fact.

Spy satellites? Watching 320 million people looking for that guy down there ratcheting the bolt on his Remington 700? They can't find the illegal alien who comes to work at the same place every day.

Online surveillance and communications systems? Finding what? The 1% of guys who are dumb enough to post "I'm going out to take my shot today." Sure. I think I'm being very generous to that position to suggest 1% would be that stupid.