[rarestia]

They are consistently discussing this Rubicon, but they’ve yet to find a safe place to cross. The problem, as I see it, manifests in American citizens’ distaste for overreach. There’s yet to be a politician brave enough to stand behind a gun confiscation scheme, because they know damn well that doing so would be the end of their career and possibly their life.

Once the enemies have set up camp on this side of the Rubicon, they will find a very angry electorate sniping at them from every angle. Many of us are willing to die for what this country stands for. The Progressives don’t have that luxury.

[ponygirl]

You forget that they did it during Katrina. And people willingly handed over their guns. That was just a test run. All they need is a “crisis.”

[ctdonath2]

The book has an insightful solution to that ... problem. There were 13 Districts, now 12. The "games" are a reminder that the central power obliterated an entire province and is perfectly willing to do it again to keep the others in submission. That's akin to, say, this administration nuking New England (including NY); would RKBA types risk wholesale destruction of, say, the South? or, recognizing sociopathy wielding far superior firepower, would they submit? Unpleasant question, usually dismissed as improbable.