Who knows what the number is? I do know that the soldiers at Fort Bragg are talking amongst themselves about it, and about half say they won’t take up arms. I don’t believe that more than 10 to 15% of all gunowners will fight, if it comes to that. What is the membership of all of the major guns rights groups combined out of a possible 80 million; perhaps 10 million?
Naturally, that's your own skeptical estimate, but let's say that it's so. At the low end, that's 6 Million furious patriots who are willing to give all to restore their country to a constitutional republic.
That's a bigger army than the federal gov't has, and it's spread throughout the land. Even if our entire military were willing to take up arms against their own people, they wouldn't stand a chance.
It's taken eight long years of brutal fighting in Iraq, just to quell an "insurgency" of some thousands. And you think there's any chance that 6 Million angry Americans can be stopped through force of arms?
My God, man. The gun owning American public is the biggest military force on the planet.