"Home Guy" wrote in message ...

After all, we know from several hundred years of past experience that an
armed US citizenry was and is totally ineffective against it's own
gov't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_Wars

Seminole victory: Pensacola was taken by General Andrew Jackson, the U.S.
Government pays most of the warring Seminole to move to Indian Territory:
grants one seat in the House: one seat in the Senate of the State
Legislature, and Florida was ceded to the United States.

You could quibble and say they weren't US citizens but the case could be
made that they had a greater right to the lands they lived in for centuries
than Andy Jackson & Co.

You could also say that an armed citizenry was pretty effective at throwing
off the Brits during the American Revolution.

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Bobby G.