[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I counted up the "if"s in you response and all I can say is "Hope springs eternal". God bless and good luck with that, I hope we never have to find out which way the pickle squirts (as my mother used to say).

Still Doubtful,
GtG

[AZ .44 MAG]

Yeah I tend toward optimism with most things. I think that 60 years ago I could have made my statements without any “ifs”. That I had to include them is a sad reflection of our society’s decline. That mindset of 60 years is not completely gone in America IMO. I see things as they are but have hope that as a whole America can recover her common sense. Sadly it might take an attack of the scale mentioned on this thread to jar the population out of its stupor.

I am not optomistic when it comes to government. Its tendency is always to exert increasing power and this scenario might give them an excuse to grab more. Whether that would work or not I think depends a great deal the citizen’s reaction to that power grab.

And I agree with your hope that we never have to know for sure.