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  At best you turn the United States into Syria. If dictatorship comes to America, it will almost certainly be popular at first(or else it wouldn't have been established in the first place)
context: It's obvious. And here's another thing they won't like. This is a feature of American life. It's not going away. It's the second ammendment. There's almost no way to affect meaningfull change. Sorry. The murder rates will remain high, school shootings and mass murders will continue at alarming rates, because the second amendment was a mistake. In a world where the CIA kills people it can't identify on the other side of the planet with missiles fired from robots based on their cell phone meta data, small arms are basically meaningless. The founders aren't to blame for this mistake really. They were definitely meaningful at the time, but they aren't now. But they're here to stay. >
  
  
  In a world where the CIA kills people it can't identify on the other side of the planet with missiles fired from robots based on their cell phone meta data, small arms are basically meaningless.
  
  Tell that to the Taiban. >
  
  Look at how many law enforcement agents are in America compared to the military members in Afghanistan. It's a comical comparison. >
  
  Troop numbers in Afghanistan peaked at around 140,000. That’s counting all of NATO. 
  There are around 650,000 law enforcement officers in the US. But we also have an overall population that handily dwarfs that. Even if you took out everyone who would refuse or be unable to fight it still wouldn’t be close to even. Then you have to account for mass desertion and resignation from the military and law enforcement if things like that started happening as well.
  There are also a bunch of other variables that make that comparison sort of useless.
  Also keep in mind that’s the same intelligence apparatus that gave me an important update in the middle of a patrol in Afghanistan to “be on the lookout in block 2 for an insurgent doing insurgent things” and the one that patted itself on the back for killing the Kabul ISIS-K bomber only to realize afterwards that they had bombed an NGO worker and several other people who had absolutely nothing to do with it. >
  
  
  There are around 650,000 law enforcement officers in the US. 
  
  Add in the national guard you're at a million. Unlike Afghanistan they're all familiar with the local language and culture and have an extremely high level of support among the population.
  Any sort of armed rebellion would be painted as terrorism and the population would turn against them in an instant. American police officers kill more unarmed Americans than any Western European police officers, so the idea that guns prevent abuse of power doesn't seem to follow from empirical evidence. >
  
  We’re not talking about small groups of conspiracy theorist preppers misguidedly trying to trigger a revolution. That would be called domestic terrorism because that’s what it is. 
  What we’re talking about would be an extreme case where the government has gone completely opposite of anything resembling representative government. I think you’re underestimating how committed people can be when they’re pressed hard enough, and how many members of the military and national guard would simply leave to go take care of their families or actively fight against the US government.
  Edit: Even then, we have at least one example of a small community successfully revolting against a corrupt local government in the 20th century.