[hinckley buzzard]

Interesting read. I would expect the military would be mobilized early on and restore order, even though that would make for a shorter, less exciting story. We had National Guard troops and tanks on the streets in Cleveland within a couple days to handle the Glenville shootout and riots of 1968, which included heavily armed snipers. The threat of armor-mounted machine guns seemed to help a lot with crowd control.

[Louis Foxwell]

Correct. The National Guard is uniquely equipped to control insurrection.