Free Speech vs. Firearms

[ragnar]

3 F-16's will trump 100 rednecks with semi-automatics any day.

the real question is:
Would the soldiers kill their countrymen?

1860-65

[ragnar]

3 F-16's will trump 100 rednecks with semi-automatics any day.

the real question is:
Would the soldiers kill their countrymen?

1860-65

As I said, there is also precedent for teh oposite. That depends on a number of variables. Here in Portugal there was no bloodbath in 1974 because the soldiers didn't want to kill theri countrymen.

Yes but it doesn´t happen that way in most countries.

[ragnar]

I doubt US military units would kill Americans today unless they were terrorists or were killing innocents. If the situation of 1861 were around today, the Union forces would refuse orders and not invade the south.

And you don´t think the people who begin an armed revolution against USA goverment would be consider "terrorists", or that the goverment could beat up a frenzy with lies and propaganda.