Halcitron wrote:

The above story assumes the US military would fire on their civilians.
That might happen with a single aircraft, flying silently, and headed
for DC or any major population center.

Our military is not trained to blind unthinking obedience, but to weigh
the legality of their actions.


I'm sure that's true. In fact, the restraint demonstrated by US
troops under fire in Iraq seems to suggest that our military is often
just the opposite of aggressive or trigger-happy. But if civilians
fired on the military, as at Lexington, MA in 1775, the legality of the
situation might not be quite as pleasant as your average gun-toting
rebel would hope. David Koresh and company learned that lesson. And,
in a sort of slow-motion, strung out way, so did Timothy McVeigh. Those
situations didn't include military troops in the literal sense of that
term; but they still represent examples of how/why the government is
never going to be outgunned.

KG