They don’t have to round up everyone. And not right away.
Look at the early post Czarist Russia. Many regions had more guns per capita than the USA. Most people turned them in when the State made a few messy examples and carted people away. The rest hid them. There are old Russian jokes about going out to “oil” the flowers. All the small arms in the world don’t matter much if (as you said) the logistics are not there.
If tomorrow, they started arresting every tenth TEA party member (or hundredth) most of the rest would fade.
Heck, the US military kept the peace in the South after the Civil War by doing such things. Kill a few here and there, and the rest will calm down. Cart the leaders away and the sheep will scatter.
Americans do not equal UNARMED russian peasants.
They had no history of fighting for freedom.
The old jokes about oiling the guns in the garden are much more recent, and Canadian.
I've studied Russian humor. I'm familiar with it.
A large percentage of the male population of BOTH sides were killed during the American Civil War. The North's industrial base saved the north. That's not the case today. The government is more likely to cave.
No.
The US government doesn't have the logistics to perform a military clampdown on the entire country.
And the recent Nevada incident proved that fly-over country won't put up with them trying.
/johnny
I’m making it a point to follow your comments across this forum. Unlike a lot of Freepers, who have a romantic notions about what the USA still is, you’re grounded in the reality: America has become Amerika and Americans are now Amerikans.