Do you think the American people (private citizens) could overtake the U.S. Military?

Question

Is this possible from a logistical and practical standpoint being that there are 2-3 million american gun owners compared to 1.5 million active duty military personnel (even though total armed forces are about 2.5 million)? Would the people have the tactical advantage being that they are all spread out or would the government have the advantage with their superior firepower even though it only takes a single 22 caliber bullet to kill someone?

Answer 1

Your question is flawed. How many of those 2-3 million gun owners are military? If, say, a million of those gun owners you refer to are military, then that leaves you with a far fewer count of american citizens to raise up against the military. And how many that are left after you take out active duty/reserve/guard out of the picture are FORMER military? So how many does that leave. And many legal gun owners are supporters of the military, so they wouldnt rise up against military anyway. How many do you have left now? How many can hit a target that have a gun?

You have a few thousand. Fight is over before it begins. The end.

Answer 2

I don't think that private citizens could overpower the military. I may be bias, but from my standpoint I see it like this: The military is organized, where as the civilian population wouldn't be. Who would lead this? It wouldn't be like when the gladiators overpowered the Roman military. Although there are many people that own guns being in warfare is something completely different then just going out to the range. Yes there is the police forces, task forces, and all other "non-military" groups that are in charge of all sorts of security, but that number is so slight compared to the vast amount of people that just own a gun. People in the military are trained experts, whereas most people in the civilian world are just amatures.

Answer 3

This question I find borderline treason. There are plenty of ways for the American public to show their disgust of the government, the best of course being VOTING. Most Americans, however, resort to ludicrous hypothetical questions like these or sit back on election day and complain about how untrustworthy and corrupt politicians are. Stop thinking about destroying America and start thinking about helping it by invoking your rights as a citizen.

And to answer your question, no private citizens lack the overall fire power, technology, and logistics to overtake the military. They also lack the will and training.

Answer 4

What you are not counting on is the bases and military personnel turning civilian. We do not have a military in the Presidency. Usually you need someone in control of many facets of society to be able to keep the military together when fighting with civilians of their own country. Be afraid when the media loves a Pres. Like Clinton.

Answer 5

Sorry to say but its not possible. If your talking Every Military Member vs. Every non Military Gun Owner the military would win hands down. Guns vs. Guns they might cause a ruckus, but your forgetting all of the technology and the entire Air Force. Its hard to shot when you're dead from a smart bomb you never saw coming.

Answer 6

ok now the civillians have what, shotguns, searching rifles, handguns? And the army has tanks, planes, missles, M16A2s, SMAWs, and all the money. Numbers dont inevitably count number; you have 2.5 million adult men w/ tanks, planes, ships, and attack rifles; and you have 3 hundred million w/ handguns and shotguns...that would purely be a slaughter. --- And why would this difficulty ever even take place? If there grow to be yet another Civil conflict possibly around one million/2 of the army would bypass to a minimum of one area, and the different one million/2 the different; it wouldnt be military vs Civillians.

Answer 7

You have to consider that you have a great number of gun owners are not all that brave to take on anything. Owning a gun and using it as a fighting tool are two different things. This is just common reasoning. Another thing to remember is that a great number of gun owners, own guns all right, but they get proficient in their use. Again common sense logic.

Answer 8

I think that if this happened the military would be so fractured it would be ineffective. Many troops would desert and total chaos would result. In event of a civil conflict like this I also think many commanders would refuse oders to attack US civilians internally. Some by outright refusal and some by deception. It would be a total mess.

Answer 9

Too many of the American people have gotten soft, pudgy, and whiney. They whine to mommy (democrats) or daddy (republicans) to fix their problems rather than taking their problems into their own hands like adults should. Every owie that pops up, they run off to uncle Sam to put another band aide on the boo-boo.

So no. They probably won't.

Answer 10

Yes, but how many Americans can really shoot straight. Another factor would be that most that can shoot (hunters) would support this military. Liberals don't have or want guns, so right there the battle would be lost.