“You’re assuming most Americans won’t turn around and forfeit those newly-acquired guns when faced with an armed squad of BLM ATF agents backed by MRAPs.”
Looks to me like all the gestapo Rambos are building barriers in DC and hiding behind the unarmed national guard.
Politicians have always historically cowered behind their military. Purging the military of anti-establishment types is the first step to ensuring the military will obey their every command. In WWII, the Luftwaffe was left alone for most of the war, and the rank and file flew by a code of honor. It wasn’t until the Nazis got desperate that they started injecting policy wonks into command ranks to ensure compliance, but what happened in the air stayed in the air.
Once the military ranks are purged of the rank and file, they’ll implement sycophants across the ranks, likely pulled from BLM militants, who will then do their bidding up to and including murder of Americans. It’s happened throughout history, and to think it won’t happen here is to be blind to history.