“How would a firefight in such a situation even play out, though. Civil wars are not put together overnight.”
One doesn’t need to wonder, just look around the world. If it happened it wouldn’t be the 55th Massachusetts vs Hoods brigade. That is how governments roll up civil wars in this era.
I think it would turn into people who did and ordered this being killed and being under constant deadly threat. Pumping gas, someone walks up in a hoodie and shoots them. A bomb goes off near the police agency that did the raid. Weather underground did this to police.
There was a news reporter brought along on the raid according to the story. In Mexico today, bloggers and journalists who support the government vs the Cartels are assassination targets.
This increases demands for security by the oppressors. This taxes the oppressive state even more.
Modern civil wars look like Iraq, Mexico, etc. Very nasty and bitter, often lasting decades. God forbid this should ever happen here.
But I fear sometimes that it actually could. Government seems utterly determined to become more weaponized, ie,,prosecuting legitimate political opposition. And the people clearly have a red line of freedom and have limits beyond which they will not be pushed.
Government wont stop its roll, and the people will not surrender into full totalitarianism.
That clearly means a fight will eventually happen.
This ain’t 1776 all over again, is the idea. It could not play out in that fashion. It would be a lot of ugly festering.
A spiritual approach would be the most likely to produce peace, but it’s hard to do even fundamentalism right any more. It has its own styles, its own fads. Still, with an earnest acknowledgment that there is a God and that God wants both justice AND peace, blessings could still be seen.
The worst sin possible isn’t even stunts of government oppression.
“That clearly means a fight will eventually happen.”
I don’t see Americans doing the Terror thing. I’d imagine Americans would be more likely, once they’d reached their limit in some such case, to form a Posse, declare their intentions and begin rounding up the Prosecutors, Judges, cops and their commanders, for a Court Martial.
That of course would force a response from the other side and there would be a clash.