Here are two takes on a possible second American civil war:
Why Democrats Would Lose the Second Civil War, Too
And:
Think They’ll Never ‘Come and Take’ Your Guns Without an Armed Revolt? Think Again
Here’s a relevant excerpt from the first:
There are two Civil War II scenarios, and the left is poorly positioned to prevail in either one. The first scenario is that the Democrats take power and violate the Constitution in order to use the apparatus of the federal government to suppress and oppress Normal Americans. In that scenario, red Americans are the insurgents. In the second scenario, which we can even now see the stirrings of in California’s campaign to nullify federal immigration law, it is the blue states that are the insurgents.
The Democrats lose both wars. Big time.
And the second:
So what will you do, dear AR-15 owner, when the ‘Cheka’ comes for your neighbor, and you know the laws are on the books to prosecute? Will a “buyback” and “amnesty” be enough to convince YOU to acquiesce? You’ve got a job, a wife, kids to raise. When they “come and take it,” is your family worth risking?
No, when they take your guns there will be no civil war. There will be no large-scale revolution, because liberals are experts at pushing that Overton Window enough not to shock the system. Like frogs in water that’s about to boil, people won’t jump until it’s too late.
Of the two scenarios, I am (sadly) inclined to believe the latter. Why?
Because I honestly don’t believe most American gun owners are quite ready to join an armed insurgency. I’d like to think I’d be willing. I know quite a few of my fellow veterans would be, enough to make things pretty hot for the would-be tyrants. But in the end?
Fifty years ago we were a nation of outdoorsmen, farmers, tradesmen and woodsmen for whom strength was their stock in trade and for whom marksmanship and woodcraft were taken as a given. Now? We have a generation grown up on the Internet and game consoles, and while many of them are ardently pro-Second Amendment (yes, really) how many of these mall ninjas would give up their homes and all their possessions, taking the risk of being shot on sight, to go forth and join a cause where the odds are stacked against you?
I sure hope I’m wrong. I sure hope we never have to find out.
