I realize that some areas like Boston where the cops are already gestapo, this stuff might just happen. I don't think that is the case everywhere. I really struggle to come up with a scenario where LEO's across the entire country would fall in line with this stuff. What would have to happen?
Even in Gestapo-blue cities, what happens when one known instance of "shots fired" is going on? Yeah, that, every available unit comes running, contain the scene, scene commander, SWAT etc.
Has it EVER happened in living memory where someone who was PO'ed at the police walked up to the police milling around
outside the perimeter just manning a squad car and roadblock and unloaded? I'm not talking about a few pops from a Hi-Point (well, even then!) but a string of aimed fire from a rifle with an optic?
There's your "
Buckle Up Baby Jesus" moment. It will be bedlam. Just two or three people doing that in a city outside the perimeter of the stand-off/siege... ZOMGWTFBBQ111!!!/SHTF/ZPOC. (Insert the pansy future cops from Demolition Man movie "
We aren't trained to handle this kind of violence!")
It would take awhile before the real bloodthirsty shoot-first, fast, and often, don't ask for compliance ROE gets going. National Guard? Not knowing how many would be on "our side"? Standing around (at first) with empty mags?
The pro-RKBA who crow about the HUGE SCALE of the problem, and logistical impossibility of confiscation, should some political miracle for the anti-RKBA side make it possible, starts becoming clear, it's not bragging, it's just a fact. Let's not even get into the possibility that the urban underclass might think this is a good time to riot and loot with the police so busy...
SS-Nazis with ZERO compunction about "Civil American Society" or any kind of constitutional rights, or decent behavior were held off how long by roughly 7-8 firearms in the Warsaw Ghetto?
And in small towns, red counties? Halfhearted at best. The populace knows who their spouses and children are and where they live if they do betray their citizens, and things got froggy. So even if the morality of the thing doesn't prevent it, the potential for reprisals will.
Why the lefty disconnect? Why do they think this is even
possible without igniting CWII and the Matt Bracken Murder-Cube and big-fish-swallow-little-fish rings of guerilla warfare and ethnic cleansing?
http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2010/07/bracken-cw2-cube-mapping-meta-terrain.htmlIt's a mix of things. People in the big-city MSM Lefty coastal bubble haven't really thought it through. They also don't realize that barring minor harassment by EO from the White House, national gun control is a dead-letter, the DNC knows it, and this "New resurgence in the gun debate! The tide might be turning!"-feeling that the chatterbox class is thinking about, they don't understand is just a pro-forma display by the Left to keep from losing an even more embarrassing amount of ground in 2016, more Senate Seats, House Seats, and state-level races etc. by pandering to their 30% hard-left core base.
If the squishy middle, or moderates were even "in play" for 2016, you'd hear crickets on gun control, save maybe one day editorial blips from the usual MSM suspects after an incident. And watch for the gun issue to die off closer to November 2016 as the Democrats try to scrape up whatever middle/moderates/undecideds/social conservative blue collar union votes they can.
Want to watch a liberal's head spin? Walk them through the Constitutional problems with banning and confiscation. In my experience, they'll often concur with suspending 4A for the search, right up to the point when I talk about their home being searched, the scope of the search, the damage to their property, and the fact that they will likely be charged for anything illegal found in their home (like the little baggie of grass in the nightstand). Suddenly, they see the problem...
And if the light doesn't go on, and they don't see the problem. Or they triumphantly shout that "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide!"...
That's the guy you go for if the lights go out and there's fire on the horizon.
As Brimic knows, Wisconsin also has the public database of the contentious gubernatorial recall petition. It would make a damn handy phone-book for a Pyrrhic victory/payback SHTF with no winners, but some losers bigger than others...