When highly committed parties strongly believe things that they cannot achieve democratically, they don't give up on their beliefs — they give up on democracy.Several of us in the commentariat have been trying to tell Democrats this for over a year. Collectively, our message can be paraphrased thus: "If you manage to get rid of Trump and Pence, in hindsight they'll look like pussycats compared to what we'll send at you next. When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind."
Who has most of the guns in private hands? NRA members. How do they vote? Republican. Angry Democrats go carefully, no sane person in either party wants a bloodbath.
Later ... The Washington Free Beacon reports a recent survey indicates civilians own nearly 400,000,000 guns in the U.S. By comparison:
American civilians own nearly 100 times as many firearms as the U.S. military and nearly 400 times as many as law enforcement.
