The whole canard about "your AR-15 is useless against an M1 Abrams tank" fails to take into account that the nature of a civil war means that everything is divided against itself. Including the military.
They also fail to take into account what asymmetric war will actually look like. Are all these weapon systems going to be easily deployed domestically, where the system's own infrastructure would be damaged or destroyed? Are they going to do "shock & awe" everywhere there are resisters? Sure. Go for it. Go ahead and blow up Alderaan with your Death Star.
Exactly. Assume they are right. Say an individual is part of a militia movement, and the government is openly using tanks, planes or drones to attack those people, presumably at work or at home. Do you work or live near one of these radicals? Guess what, you are now "collateral damage" Sure, they can go after an individual farmhouse or compound, but why would patriots be stupid enough assemble there? Liberals always assume that the government will deal with their problems for them. The Police will protect them. I think what they would find is that their homes are being destroyed along with those of their neighbor whom they voted to rob. They will find that the services they depend on are being attacked and the govt is near powerless to stop it. They will cheer the house to house searches of their own property looking for the patriots- but not realize they can't keep it up day after day - in city after city after city. Patriots leave 10 "suspicious packages" around a city containing used pinball machine parts and watch them close down a city and bring in the bomb squads.
Phone in your tips liberals! and patriots will phone in the same. Then there are of the patriots who simply sabotage the works when the opportunity arises. Liberals have such undying faith that the govt can deal with insurrection because their minds can't comprehend that there might actually be a sizable group against them. That the Feds will be going after 100 people in a compound in Waco. If this goes down it may be just 1% of the population. Oh wait, that is still 3,000,000 people. Okay say its 0.01- oops still 30,000 - most with military training. And they turned Boston upside down looking for one unarmed, untrained teenager. Now you have 30,000 rebels working in different cities around the country. They don't have the men or material to deal with it - especially if some others planting decoy events. Then Add to them the millions being targeted in the liberal witch hunt. People who are not actively rebelling in any way, but are pushed to defend themselves and die in their driveways because they are considered a potential threat and the govt decides that a roundup and internment camp is the best way to deal with it? Gonna run out of shock troops fast that way. Not a lot of us are going to go there willingly or without a fight.
Liberals will cheer at the mass arrests and do as they always do - applaud as the government imprisons or mass murders their neighbors without trial! And then, of course, if the patriots fail, it will be their turn. Further, patriots are in an impossible liberty or death situation, why would they refrain from killing the traitorous liberals near them before they go or are taken? Liberals don't think this will be personal- thinking that the govt is between them and the patriots. If the US Military was united against them, the Patriots would surely loose, but why die without taking people who voted to to begin this fight with you?
