Many here are or were career soldiers. Don’t discount an armed, free populace, new guy.
And last figure I saw was 88 million armed Americans but if it’s from the same people telling us how many uninvited guests from south of the border we have living among us, I suspect you can prolly double the number.
And welcome to FR.
I’m not totally discounting anyone, I’m expressing severe doubts that someone whose training amounts to weekends of “point and shoot” is going to be able to be anything close to combat effective against someone who could outrun them while still carrying 50 pounds of equipment, spot them on IR before they even know they’re targeted, and plant a C4 brick in their getaway vehicle so that when the survivors drive off they can light up whatever hidey-hole they drive to.
We will not be fighting conscripts standing in neat lines with big white bullseyes right over their chests and an effective range of about a football field with their inaccurate single-shot musket. There will be few places to hide from the eyes in the sky; what happens when word gets around that ‘head for the hills’ in the deepest forest still doesn’t save your rebel squad or your family camper from being blown sky high?
And meaning no personal offense, soldier, but I expect that most of you will follow orders because that is what they brutally indoctrinate you to do from your first day in Basic. Even discounting that, would you still sympathize when one of the rebels manages to drill one of your buddies or would you blow him to hamburger just like any other threat like you’ve been trained to do since the day they put an assault rifle in your hands?