Originally Posted by
WillBrink
All true, and they don't care. That's when fractures occur, and some comply and some don't, it's brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor, cop against cop, etc, which is why civil wars are the most brutal of all, and once they get going, all control is lost. Recall when the gov of Arkansas used the NG to ignore the new laws, Eisenhower placed Arkansas National Guard under federal control "...and sent 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division to assist them in restoring order in Little Rock." How would such a thing play out in todays 'Murica I don't know. The left, per usual, really has no understanding of what they're playing with there and per usual, will leave the heavy lifting and dying to others, until it's on their doorstep and now too late.
Grandpa was in the 82nd right after WWII. I don't see any mention of them being used like the the 101st, but my Grandfather made a comment once, two decades ago, about how he sure as hell wasn't going to shoot another American under any orders. I assumed that they were deployed at one point to coal mines? Like I said, just a two minute conversation that I didn't follow up on, but I never forgot. (It might have been just a discussion about scuttle-butt that they might be used, and one of his platoon mates was all for it.)
Not that I think the VA dems are this smart, but the military often has the highest rankings among institutions and careers. Talk about a way to destroy that is by turning the NG on the people most likely to support the military.
I think it is a low probability, but the ugliness of a decentralized/no-front civil war is the ugliness of the French Revolution makes any kind of movement towards it a scary proposition. Frankly, the definition of 'terrifying'.
The speed at which the left has turned to confirm all the worst in themselves is also scary. This is what they'll say in public. Imagine if the right had gone 1/10 this direction towards some kind of internment scheme, the left would be going nuts.
Last edited by FromMyColdDeadHand; 12-15-19 at 14:33.
The Second Amendment ACKNOWLEDGES our right to own and bear arms that are in common use that can be used for lawful purposes. The arms can be restricted ONLY if subject to historical analogue from the founding era or is dangerous (unsafe) AND unusual.
It's that simple.
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