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In article <6pkqd3$fem@umbc8.umbc.edu>
on 28 Jul 1998 11:23:15 -0400, jjasen1@umbc.edu (John "E.R." Jasen)
wrote:

>Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@netcom.com> wrote:
>> John "E.R." Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu) wrote:
>> : Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@netcom.com> wrote:
>> : >      If for some reason the armed forces did get into a  war with
>> : > armed civilians, the armed forces would win easily and the destruction
>> : > of life and property in the country would be enormous.
>> 
>> : Ummm ... No. Even if the military 100% sided with the government, the
>> : conclusion would be the inevitable destruction of the armed forces, then
>> : whatever is left of the government.
>> 
>>      Blatant nonsense.
>
>Hardly. The civilian population outnumbers the military by about 250:1.
You are assuming that every one will back the ones revolting... not
everyone that has a gun will back the ones revolting.   We as a nation
have all ready been thru this once a little over a 100 years ago in a
war that call the Civil War... tell me who won that war?  Not the
unrecognized civilian militia called the Confederacy.   In Kentucky
and Tennessee I have relatives where brothers fought against each
other.  One such case was that of my Great Great Grandfather and his
brother, as my Great Great Grandfather decided that the Union was
right for him while his younger brother decided that the Confederacy
was right for him so each went their own way.  As the story goes about
my Great Great Grandfather and his brother, they met on the
battlefield  at Shiloh and as the fight escalated my Great Great
Grandfather found himself in a hand to hand fight with his brother.
His brother surrendered to him and both survived the war.

You are living in an fantasy world if you think that when this
supposed uprising comes that all of the civilians will follow... it
didn't happen in the Civil War and will not happen now.  I have guns,
and currently if some group was to take up arms against the
government, I would side with the government.