“Our volunteer military better not turn on us...”
“Sorry to say, but most will “follow orders”.
While there are those of us currently serving who would refuse to participate in some kind of widespread use of the military force (or show of force) against the American population, I have to agree that the majority would go along with it. The consequences of disobeying orders is much greater than most would be willing to risk for the sake of principle. The career guys don’t want to destroy their careers over legal matters above their pay-grade and the one-timers would rather just lay low and stay out of trouble until they get out. We’ve spent the better part of a decade deploying to foreign countries and imposing police state tactics on third world civilian populations (stopping people and searching them on roads, searching homes without a warrant, full body pat-down checkpoints, etc.), that we’re already conditioned for acting as a police/peacekeeping force. Don’t view the military as your enemy but be prepared and don’t cling to the idea of a widespread military revolt, as some on this website naively seem to do.
Nice way to enter FR, by calling some of us naive.
My dh just retired from the Marines, and every single Officer we know holds allegiance first and foremost to the founding Constitution. Wait...I think there was one who voted for the prØmpter, and he came around rather quickly to see the error in his choice.