Most people didn’t support the Founding Fathers either. The 3% pledged their lives, honor, and fortunes. Many Americans were exiled to Canada, because they still supported the British “law and order”. Washington preferred not to war on those people, since liberty was the game not tyranny or forcing people to obey.

For most of humanity, they won’t do something about it until authorities and a leader tell them to do so. But those authorities and leaders don’t come into existence without individual will and initiative.

Thus decapitation of enemy regimes and killing officers in enemy armies, was always an effective way to destroy the organization of an enemy. Few people are in war because they have a personal motivation to fight. Those who are, tend to be more dangerous than usual.

There’s a few stories floating around the american frontier of such individuals, as well as snipers in WWII.

I hated the 60s. Confirming what I always believed about Walter Cronkite was really the icing on the cake.

People are quite aware of what’s happening in the country. How else do you explain the massive buying of guns and ammo that’s been going on? Just look at the response to the shutdown of the National Parks, lots of civil disobedience. Don’t be fooled by the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are polite peaceful people, they’re tough and would fight back very hard if the kind of oppression you describe became the norm.

For example, if you are organizing your local neighborhood’s self defense militia against Leftist goons, thugs, and enforcement officers, all they have to do to take you out is:

1. Find child porn on your computer, which they may or may not have put there.

2. Have your neighbor report your house as being a drug haven, they’ll bust in with no knock warrants via SWAT and execute you, when you get your guns up, as “resisting the police”.

3. Character assassinate you on facebook.

4. Make you disappear.

5. Find ways to sue you over ethics violations or code violations. Forcing bankruptcy.

6. Various other harassments to keep you too busy to organize any response to the APCs and tanks they roll in.

7. Infiltrate your group with their goons, commit crimes, and blame it on the existence of the group.

These days an effective way to keep under the government radar is to conduct cell based operations, distributed networks, and non centrally organized forces. Though the FBI’s current anti terrorist intel gathering is still sufficient even to weed out terror cells before 2008, except for the sleepers. There’s a lot of problems with that, but then again there’s a lot of problems when the Regime labels your group a domestic right wing militia/terrorist, and train their armored infantry against you specifically as a “threat”.

Guerillas aren’t really designed in the beginning to face off against APCs, tanks, and up armored humvees (courtesy of Iraq). Even if you can get away from them, they will occupy your territory and property.

A resistance first has to win popular approval, and at times it does so via arms, but most of the time not. Without the support of the people, they cannot be supplied and cannot conduct any operations. By forcing the Regime to lock down the people as a way to deny the resistance supplies, this increases negative views against the Regime. But that by itself isn’t enough. The Regime has to be attacked, directly or indirectly, eventually to weaken it and overthrow it.

What keeping arms does to a person is make them pay attention to their own protection and self sufficiency. They can’t excuse themselves with “well, I am powerless, I might as well Obey”. Every time they pull it out for maintenance, this “thought process” is maintained and reinforced, creating individuals resistant to regime propaganda and soul vampirism. The gun itself is just a tool. The Founding Fathers found it a useful and necessary tool for frontier life, but just a tool. And a tool that has been supplemented in the modern day by many other tools which aren’t guaranteed by the US Constitution because it wasn’t invented yet.

If Americans want virtues more fit for a warrior nation, they will have to find ways to develop it themselves. They aren’t going to find a leader or authority that will order them to do so.

Your family may be out looking, but that’s the same deal as the family that lost their girl in Aruba to date raping locals.

Yep, that’s the real point of the second amendment, isn’t it?

I doubt that the people of the US would give up so easily, it’s not in their genes. There’d be a gun behind every blade of grass once that kind of repression was attempted.

BUT: nowadays? even without the violent upheaval and protests and racist Mau-Mauing, Vanderbilt has been rotted from within by the same leftist rot — you read their catalogue and their PR materials, and it’s the same bilge you get anywhere else.

Solzhenitsyn said that when the state police came to drag people off to the gulag, if only the people had realized they greatly outnumbered them and had risen up, grabbing whatever weapons they had to hand, they could have overwhelmed them all. But they all cowered separately in their miserable flats, dreading the knock on their individual doors.