Sorry, kids, but the Second Amendment may be a chimera. It’s a nice security blanket, one that I subscribe to wholeheartedly, but the reality is a little thinner.
For the Second to work (i.e. to use the “reset” button), people have to take up arms and be willing to use them. Before that takes place, somebody must step up onto a soapbox at the front of the mob and start giving orders.
A) Who is going to step up, thereby facing instant arrest? Talking or even e-mailing about this might be enough to bring the thought police to your door.
B) How many people, really, are going to get off their couches and grab their pitchforks and double-barreled shotguns? Those that do will be arrested, until critical mass (maybe a third of the population) is reached. There is safety ONLY in numbers.
C) Just who is the enemy, exactly?
Sad to say, none of this will even start taking shape until things get VERY bad ... soup lines ... and even then I can see it working until at least one military unit switches sides and joins the Constitutionalists.
Otherwise, we’re whistling past the graveyard, folks. Sorry.
I’m more than willing to reconsider, so please ... flame away.
CAN’T see ... sorry.
Anybody remember how to set up Committees of Correspondence? Or was it Committees of Safety ... I forget ...
Here is your answer from the grave:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What wouldthings have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at nightto make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and hadto say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as forexample in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city,people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at everybang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but hadunderstood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in thedownstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers,or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly havesuffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all ofStalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!” The Gulag Archipelago, A. Solzhenitsyn. Chapter 1 “Arrest”, fn. 5
I predict that we’re going to start seeing a lot of Ruby Ridge and Waco-like incidents over the next couple of years.
Opposition to the invaders will be crushed so terribly that sympathizers will feel completely defeated and demoralized.