Selous Doubtless you have heard of the decision of the Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts to abandon the Minutemen logo as the university's symbol. And, if our 18th Century ancestors had not been sexist, racist, and violent, our nation would not exist. I guess that we really have met the enemy, and he is us, in Pogo's classic expression. Thanks to God, we Americans do not fit into stereotypical categories. Numbers would not matter particularly in such a confrontation.
Formal armies can defeat other formal armies, and they can put down mobs of agitators, as in China.
They cannot defeat a population completely armed with simple old-fashioned rifles. What the disarmers never recognize is that episodes like Tiananmen Square can never occur if every citizen maintains his own rifle in his house, as in Switzerland. That Federal Agent who deliberately shot an unarmed and defenseless woman in the face while she was holding her baby has not yet been brought to justice. A cooling-off period for handgun purchases requires a number of unlikely assumptions in order to work. Then he must not know how to buy a handgun on the black market, or how to obtain one from friends, relatives or acquaintances.