Aye. Given the build-ups we've seen (NSA intel gathering, weapons/ammo-stockpiling, forward-base disbursement [aka "militarization of the police]) and the utter aversion to pursuance of justice (Fast and Furious, Wide Receiver, Benghazi, Obamacare/CGI, Solyndra, etc) I'm thinking only God's hand can prevent bloodshed as the restoration of just governance... and it may be by bloodshed God works (see the book of Esther).
I've prayed that it wouldn't come to that, but if it must, my prayer is that it happens on my watch and that my children can be spared from participation...
I have no children, but that sentiment is one I've always admired; John Adams said something similar in a letter to his wife:
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. (Thomas Jefferson)
This was Jefferson who said this. Notice he did not say should be, could be, might be, ought to be, may be.
Thomas Jefferson knew full well that corrupt men would again take the reigns of gubbamint. He knew evil men lurked in the halls of gubbamint waiting to seize power.
Not my words...The words of the 3rd president of the United States...Thomas Jefferson.