Isn’t that the definition of a civil war?

But if you are convinced that the military would turn on its own people, doesn’t that still make the whole “we need guns to protect ourself from a potential fascist government and we are going to run around in the woods and prepare” silly?

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The idea that the military would stay unified and be on one ‘side’ of a civil war does not.

In any case it is obvious from the Middle East that people with guns can in fact stand up to the US military quite successfully.

I don't take any pleasure in saying any of this; I'm not interested in besmirching the values of others that I do not share. But what is happening is crazy. The President of the United States is advocating that anybody who does not blindly support him is the enemy; and that those enemies need to be "dealt with".

This is way beyond "America, love it or leave it".