(04-11-2024, 08:26 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(04-11-2024, 07:42 PM)mikesez Wrote: If the government is able to easily recruit police who believe you are a threat who must be arrested or worse, no amount of guns will save you.

If you are able to convince those police that the constitution is not being followed and no longer legitimate, and that they should follow you instead of their normal commanding officers, you don't need any guns at all. Even easier if the Constitution says that the elected officials have to perform a certain ceremony at a certain time or place, and you prevent them from doing so by causing a general ruckus. You get to be the crisis, and the solution to the crisis!

There are less than a million police officers in the country.  I think a well-armed public, with a 100 to 1 advantage, would do okay. 

"General ruckus"?  Thanks for dropping the insurrection talk and finally admitting what it really was.

Your well armed neighbors would have to really like you and believe in your cause and be willing to stop their normal jobs and organize for that numerical advantage to mean anything.

And yes it was a general ruckus in the one place in the country during the one time every four years that a well timed ruckus can invalidate the continuation of the constitution. Which makes it an insurrection.

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