My business allows me to meet and speak to A LOT of military types. Don't think WTSHTF there is not a plan. There's a HUGE difference between a bunch of rioters terrorizing a city, condoned by city leaders, ignored by Washington, and a well armed militia with structure.
The silent majority may get cheated at the ballot box but don't think for a minute what military is left will gather up the gang bangers for a huge military push. This is not the movie "Suicide squad" where the bad guys develop into a unit.
It won't be 3%.
You don't indicate if you think 3% is high or low, or if you are speaking of the population as a whole or just the veterans and retired LE and ex-military-as-soon-as-an-unconstitutional-order-is-given groups.
I am betting the total population with military training ( active and retired) is going to side with liberty - but that could e 80% or 51%. I suspect that 60-75% of active duty military will remain - the military having been actively purged of freedom loving people over that past decade, as well as reduced in overall size.. and if tese numbers hold:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-percentage-of-americans-have-served-in-the-military/We have about 7% of the living American population as Vets. so really our 3% that rebel could very realistically be drawn exclusively from their ranks. . Now that doesn't make a well trained militia in and by itself, but it means the skill set it there and can be taught.
I do think it is highly likely that the motivated fighters will be on the side of freedom - because its hard to get motivated over killing people for not using the proper and approved pronouns. Any military left at the Statist's command will do their duties perfunctorily, and only as much as is necessary to minimize their own personal risk while staying in the good graces of superiors. The left's real army is the anti-white racist crowd, feminists , radical Islamist (foreign and domestic!) and other groups they have inflamed with imaginary grievances, which gives the government the pretext they need to deploy tier soldiers and initiate a martial law situation...which is what the left wants as the new normal. . The left is constantly trying to establish a new normal - because "papers please" check-points, licensed journalism, gun control, cashless systems, domestic spying, etc are "just the things we have to do" now in the same way Japanese internment had to be accepted ( Don't you know we are at war?) At some point we reach a bridge too far, and the gloves come off- and the left consistently misinterprets the restraint leading to this point as cowardice. ( as Treavor163 demonstrates - also note that its an implicit admission that he deserves a good thrashing..)
With every bridge we do cross, and show restraint, the more people join us, and the more non-violent resistance you will see. People refusing to comply with the administration's bathroom edicts, paying taxes, or a million other things. Yeah, you got a court order. Now make us do it. Cut our funding? No more taxes paid to you- people will make checks out directly to the school district or simply home-school. The more they tighten their grip, the more star systems slip through their fingers. More people will just withdraw from the system. Go ex-pat, go Galt. Go on welfare. And more people will flat out refuse to comply, and dare the government to enforce. Witness the refusal to obey the gun registration and confiscation edicts in New York and Connecticut. You will note that the left has decided not to call the right's "bluff" that we will resist violently. The standoff has really already begun, and those are the conflicts where we can win in public opinion - where people -minding their own business are assaulted on their own property in an attempt to subjugate them.. people who wouldn't have hurt anyone or have gone looking for a fight if the left had not brought it to them..
We will choose restraint as long as we can withdraw. If they make it impossible to withdraw( Mandatory service for your kid in Obama-Hitlery Youth) you refuse to comply. If they attempt to make you comply, defend your rights with violence. This is why the gun confiscation is almost certain to result in open war - because without a gun, withdrawal and non-compliance are no longer a viable options. In the meantime they will generate as much instability as they can , because they never let a crisis they created go to waste.