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I certainly agree with your final point!

I think you are wrong about needing to arm ourselves, though. Anyone who rises up against the United States government will deal with the most lethal fighting force ever assembled. If the military remains on the side of the Constitution, the insurrectionists don't stand a chance. If they somehow go over to the insurrection, then all is lost in any case; having a 38 special or even an AK-47 will not help me in the least.

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I frankly have more confidence in the Military than I do in local Law Enforcement.

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Wow, Ally, that’s quite a statement coming from you

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I believe that the military's greater mission and control over its personnel gives me that confidence. My faith in the rank and file of police officers generally has taken a huge tumble in recent years, based on their collective reactions to police violence.

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The US armed forces cannot necessarily be depended on. Special Ops is rife with "the enemy within" as is the Air Force.

You did notice how many veterans are among those arrested? And there were probably more there.

If I lived in a Red State, I wouldn't be depending on the armed forces to protect me from the nuts down the street.

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Oh, no doubt. My point, however, to be perfectly blunt, is that if things break that way, we are totally f****d and no level of personal armament will change that fact.

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Totally correct. Look to the history of the fall of the Roman Republic.

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Exactly

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The last thing we need is another big pile of guns and another g-d shootout.

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Would America have it any other way? Will we learn from our history? Pollyanna says, I hope so.....the rest of me despairs.

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Lynn honestly I’m not too hopeful either. Why can’t we learn? It’s frankly cause for despair though I do everything to avoid despair.

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