Fast Eagle: DEVGRU or Development Group is the new super secret name for SEAL Team 6 so don't tell anybody! It's so secret that only half the bartenders within 100 miles of Damneck VA know it. I was a "zero" (O-3) platoon commander at ST2 and 4 in the 80s before I got out, class 105 from that Coronado school. ***** I think that confiscation scenarios are unlikey given a linear progression of events in US history. But history teaches us to prepare for the unexpected nonlinear event or events. For example, here is a "what if": what if we see a series of "mega Columbines"? Imagine a deranged shooter (with or without government "help") up in a tower over a stadium with a seabag full of ordnance, say the dreaded "assault rifles"? Between the direct fire casualties and the panic stampede crushing casualties, you could see KIA in 4 figures easily. Think back to the media response to Columbine, now imagine 50 or 100 times the casualties. Imagaine "emergency legislation" ginned up in a matter of days, and RKBA defenders in congress hiding in the tall grass. I could see a poorly written bill outlawing ALL SEMIAUTO firearms being passed, much as happened in Australia after the Tasmania massacre. ***** But what about the 2nd amd you will say? Well, the govt's official position at this point as laid down during Emerson is that it covers state militias-national guards only and not individuals. We may disagree: but that will not stop such a bill being passed in the wake of a "mega Columbine. ***** Now what if evidence suggests that the shooter was a patsy, or a psycho "helped" on his way by agents who wanted to see the anti firearms laws passed, and believed the shooting was "tragic but necessary" to achieve the desired result: a disarmed nation? (Only semis, say.) If many of us believed that the government set the incident up, we would refuse to comply. This could set the stage for a slide into violent govt raids, retaliation by selective assassinations, more raids and "preventive arrests" under "emergency anti terrorism laws", and so on into disorder and civil war on the Irish lines. **** In this climate, soldiers would be ordered to back up federal LEOs on raids, cordon-and-search operations etc. It would not be so easy and clear cut as "soldiers refusing to fire on their fellow citizens". It would be soldiers taking part in "combined anti terrorist sweeps" after bombings and assassinations, quite a different matter. That's enough to chew on for now, tell me what you think.
