Drinking or schizophrenic? Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . ."
I seriously doubt Americans will shoot fellow Americans, I for one would loath having to square off with any force other than an outside the country invasion force.
Could America have another Civil War? I doubt it. What I do see is a possibility of “truth squads” fanning out to find unrest in its infancy, now if I happen to hear of a fool idiot gun nut blasting away at any show of force well he is still an idiot in my books.
This is not quite yet a Red Dawn type of America, if it ever did I would expect no less than every American to be armed. And frankly if I needed guns I would find the enemy and steal his, not buy them and create a record.