Aesop has left a couple of comments that have provoked me into further
thought on the subject of 20 million deer hunters. A lot of people who
believe that 20 million deer hunters are a credible threat to tyranny
seem to have the "Underpants Gnome" plan for success.
Step 1. 20 Million Deer Hunters!
Step 2. ?
Step 3. Victory!
What this conversation really boils down to is how you get from step one
to step three. Expecting 20 million people to self organize into
anything is, in my opinion, expecting a miracle.
Actually I see 20 Million deer hunters and I start whittling away the ones that won't fight, can't fight, or are in the wrong geographic location to do anyone any good. A deer hunter in rural Wyoming, New Mexico, or Alaska is in a position to maybe cause some trouble with a railroad or oil pipeline, but not really going to be all that effective at ending the siege of New York or Miami. Successful insurgencies are population centric, and the bulk of our population is urban/sub-urban.
I think the disconnect is that you seem to keep looking at "20M hunters" and seeing 10,000 potential regiments, needing the requisite uniforms, rations, drill, and coordination into a unified command - which I'll grant we'd need in the Fulda Gap in 1983. In the Shenandoah Valley in 2013 not so much.
Whereas we'uns see them as 10M+ potential sniper teams, free to shoot or not, as and when they will, and show back up at work in the morning, indefinitely.
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