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I disagree that guns would play much of a role in a domestic resistance. Look at Iraq and Palestine. Movements don't resist modern militaries on the militarys' terms. They wage guerilla ware, because it's the only remotely feasible option. The idea of groups of revolutionaries fighting against the military is absurd.
Besides, as soon as there was a credible armed resistance that could actually threaten the government, I bet we'd see UN Peacekeepers here in a hurry. Darfur is small potatos, but with our nuclear stockpiles and chemical/biological agent research it wouldn't take Don Cheadle to get people interested.
Rest assured, the hypothetical 2nd American Revolution wouldn't look anything like the first at all. It would be a battle of ideas, media, and money, backed by guerilla tactics. And when the dust settled, you'd have a hell of time getting any kind of agreement that resulted in a nation that remotely looked like the US. We'd be a bunch of nation-states, none of which would have a balanced enough economy to support themselves - ripe for the picking. Unable to hang together, we would assuredly die separately.
The real problem with any of this is getting a critical mass of the population to do ANYTHING. We can't get 60% to VOTE for all the candidates put together! The masses in this country would shit if they didn't have their DSL connections, air conditioning, gas stations, etc. Face it, we lack the collective spine to do anything by force or revolution, no matter how bad things get.
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