Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Oh Dear Lord [View all]bluedigger
(17,091 posts)Let's look at your demographics.
Total active duty strength is 1.4 million. Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard have negligible ground combat skills or equipment, so that leaves us with around 750,000 Army and Marines. Now remove roughly 25% minorities and you get ~ 560,000. Let's take another 10% as females less likely to participate in insurrection. So we are at just over half a million. Now, what percentage of those are going to rebel against the government? "Most"? That would be 300,000 or so, with huge holes in unit cohesion across all ranks and abilities. Good luck with that, facing loyal units with the support of the civilian government.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/demographics-of-active-duty-u-s-military/
As a former member of the US Army I find your assumption of widespread disloyalty in the ranks highly insulting.