(July 8, 2015 at 2:53 pm)KUSA Wrote:(July 8, 2015 at 12:21 pm)Napoléon Wrote: That's what I don't get with it though. I'd back the trillions of dollars the US government pumps into its military against a bunch of hicks with a few guns. It ain't 1776 anymore you guys...
The problem with your thinking is that the military is made up of these same hicks. The size of the military pales in comparison to the civilian gun owners. Take away the ones that would not turn on their own and you have a small force to go out and hunt the hicks.
It depends on the group's methods. If a rebellion can be conducted peacefully without killing anyone, then I could see soldiers refusing to fire. That isn't likely to happen. In order to take over the government, the rebelling force is probably going to kill several people and, unless they have taken over the news somehow, the faces and families of those murdered individuals will be all over the place. Soldiers, like most citizens, will view the group as the enemy. That will probably change how the average soldier reacts to a rebellion. I could see soldiers firing on their fellow citizens once they view those people as traitors instead of Americans.
