“The second point is that while imposing a new order would be difficult enough in America, it would be hugely more difficult politically if the body count climbed into the countless thousands due to armed resistance.”
That’s making an assumption that there would be enough people with guns who would kill people with them. I don’t think there would be enough to save us from anything.
“That’s making an assumption that there would be enough people with guns who would kill people with them. I don’t think there would be enough to save us from anything.”
It doesn’t take many.
The deaths during the 90s made a difference, and it wasn’t just the big cases, if you read enough newspapers you saw many individual and pairs or more, of deaths in confrontations with the federal govt. (The house always burns).
The weight of all that seemed to make the feds reevaluate how to approach things, and those brute force situations have ended.
In a worst case scenario the deaths of 50 here, 25 there,
500, etc. progressing into enough thousands that the publicity was unbearable, then that is a powerful force on any govt. In a country like ours we are especially sensitive to such things.