I've been thinking a lot lately about people who say the people of the United States couldn't rebel against their own government.

2010 demogaphics show that there are around 2310000 people in the military (this is including reserves), also consider 765000 police officers employed as of 2008 (might be less now due to cuts.)

Gun ownership in America is at about 47% for adults. Census bureau states that there are 237744632 legal adults in America right now. 47% of that is 111739977 people. Let's be generous here, lets say that only 10% of those gun owners are above 21, own guns, and are willing to fight to preserve their rights. That's 11173997 people, and let's also assume that every single person in the military owns a firearm. That leaves us with roughly 8800000 people ready to fight for their freedom. I will subtract 3 or 4 million just for statistic inaccuracies. That leaves about 4800000 people (which is pretty generous in my opinion.)

This is under the assumption that every single person in the military wouldn't question Obama's orders, and is a fighter not some military pencil-pusher. Now lets not get tied up on the semantics of the numbers here, this is just a vague example meant to give you somewhat of an idea of what i'm thinking. I understand there are a lot of semantics going into this, but just assume that the people are united as well as the military.

An argument I see often is "the government has helicopters/planes/etc." THIS ISN'T IRAQ, the military can't just bomb cities out like they are in the desert, if the resistance was meshed within society they would need people on the ground, they couldn't just light up entire cities with innocent non-gun owners in danger.

To be honest with you guys i'm not gun crazy, I own two pistols and I feel like that is adequate to protect me from my main worry which is a robber. I'm not sure how I feel about the events going on now, I just know that the 2nd amendment was put there for a reason and we shouldn't doubt for one second that our government has ultimate control over us.

Thanks for reading.

No, it is all a show of theatrics to give you the illusion you have the power and control.
Big Money is what owns this country and who picks your puppets to "represent you" them.

The size of the country would make it impossible for the government to win a war against the people.
Afganistan is slightly smaller than the state of Texas, every resource and dollar that the government has used to date would need to be duplicated and deployed to Texas to deal with a guerrilla type civil war in that state alone.
Just like in afghanstan all the governments technology wouldn`t bring an end to the war it would be a never ending war, and that`s just one state.

The government would never know who are rebel sympathizers, who is aiding the rebels, who is working within the government itself and spying for the rebels,who the rebels are.The rebels would look like americans, dress like americans, act like americans, because they are americans.

There are already local organizations in place that could very easily be used to organize resistance and the people in those organizations already know and trust each other. local lions clubs, VFW`s, rotary clubs, volunteer fire depts., the list is endless.

The government knows that it can`t win a rebellion that is why they will avoid a rebellion by legally and gradually disarming the people so that the people can`t rebel.

Originally posted by Tardacus
The size of the country would make it impossible for the government to win a war against the people.
Afganistan is slightly smaller than the state of Texas, every resource and dollar that the government has used to date would need to be duplicated and deployed to Texas to deal with a guerrilla type civil war in that state alone.
Just like in afghanstan all the governments technology wouldn`t bring an end to the war it would be a never ending war, and that`s just one state.

Some things ro remember about Afganistan. Those folks can still drink from a hoof print so to say. Americans getting their water and electric turned off....oh boy.

Also Americans wouldnt have someone like Iran slipping bullets over the border.

Americans would be forced to move fast at first and try to finish it fast and thats not going to be happening without state or national armies joing in the fight.....or a power coup.