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0 pointskrapp4y ago0 comments

>Such a military force would be facing a very well armed citizen-led guerilla response.

Unless enough citizens were on the side of the coup. I don't know why no one ever seems to acknowledge that as a possibility, especially after Jan. 6. Gun owners are just as driven by politics and ideology as anyone else.

Plus just because you have a gun in a safe and maybe sometimes shoot watermelons in the backyard with it doesn't mean you'll be effective in guerilla warfare against an actual military. I know Americans like to bring up Afghanistan and Vietnam as examples of guerilla warfare succeeding against the US, but fighters in both cases still went through training that would break the average American gun owner.

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goodluckchuck4y ago

> Unless enough citizens were on the side of the coup.

That was kinda the whole point of the revolutionary war. #DemocracySpeaksManyLanguages

zozbot2344y ago

The flip side is that many people in the military would absolutely sabotage the coup. Keep in mind that everyone in the military is bound by an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.

AutumnCurtain4y ago

Purely anecdotal, but from discussion with my military friends there is widespread belief more than half of enlisted soldiers would've supported the Jan 6th coup attempt militarily. That percentage is far smaller along officers. With two exceptions though the people telling me this are officers and that will slant their view.

selectodude4y ago

It would be interesting to see how these "3 percenters" would do living in the mountains and eating bush meat for five years.

edgyquant4y ago

You’d be surprised what pure spite can lead a man to deal with

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