Hard to tell which part of my questions you’re answering.
But on one hand you wouldn’t be able to use them to compel the other people to come into the military because they’d already be in use.
On the other hand if China was actually serious about invading, those numbers are utterly insignificant. Hell, if they feel at the same percentage for their military, It would probably be bigger than our damn population.
I meant that the US has a huge standing army despite the constitution not wanting that. Even in the event of a large geopolitical war they’d probably not even need extra persons.
They do, but 99 out of 100 of them would be completely useless against any form of coordinated insurgency.
Arming yourself is pretty effective against a single person trying to get you, or even against a local security force that really doesn’t want to die for their job. Look at Uvalde. If that was a military off it would have been over in seconds.
The actual number of people that take the time to do target practicing and can hit a moving target, The number of people that can properly maintain a firearm, It’s nowhere near the number that are actually armed.
And to be honest it probably wouldn’t be a D-Day style invasion. They’d probably work their way into government. Spread a bunch of propaganda around. Sew discontent, feed infighting. Attack education, gerrymander and otherwise rig the votes, Dismantle the branches of government and place their own agents to take over laws and legal rulings. By the time real boots were hitting the ground would be so entrenched in internal combat we wouldn’t know it hit us.
The US has something like 0.6% of the country as military troops anyway (both active and reserve). That’s over 2M people.
Hard to tell which part of my questions you’re answering.
But on one hand you wouldn’t be able to use them to compel the other people to come into the military because they’d already be in use.
On the other hand if China was actually serious about invading, those numbers are utterly insignificant. Hell, if they feel at the same percentage for their military, It would probably be bigger than our damn population.
I meant that the US has a huge standing army despite the constitution not wanting that. Even in the event of a large geopolitical war they’d probably not even need extra persons.
Yeah but the US has as a gun behind every blade of grass.
They do, but 99 out of 100 of them would be completely useless against any form of coordinated insurgency.
Arming yourself is pretty effective against a single person trying to get you, or even against a local security force that really doesn’t want to die for their job. Look at Uvalde. If that was a military off it would have been over in seconds.
The actual number of people that take the time to do target practicing and can hit a moving target, The number of people that can properly maintain a firearm, It’s nowhere near the number that are actually armed.
And to be honest it probably wouldn’t be a D-Day style invasion. They’d probably work their way into government. Spread a bunch of propaganda around. Sew discontent, feed infighting. Attack education, gerrymander and otherwise rig the votes, Dismantle the branches of government and place their own agents to take over laws and legal rulings. By the time real boots were hitting the ground would be so entrenched in internal combat we wouldn’t know it hit us.