The key here, as always with the left, is not whether they could be successful, but will they think they could be successful?
Wars are started because one side underestimates the resolve of the other and crosses the line. IMO that is what would happen with an EO gun ban. I don’t think they realize the potential consequences of doing that. Which is what makes the situation so dangerous.
I have always thought the same about the end when satan attacks God. Surely he does not believe he can win?
The left has a powerful group-think going - they’ve built a consensus around their passion - as if the intensity of beliefs was somehow connected to the truth of those beliefs. We have to learn to talk to them in the irrational ways of their thinking...