What if: Terrorists vs Armed US civilians

With the whole right to bear arms thing [US Constitution etc]...let's say terrorists attacked, right? I always wondered this: Say some civilians are carrying when an attack happens, and they decide to defend the unarmed civilians against IS, whomever...

Do the cops/army turn up and start taking out civilians because they can't tell who's who? Because I always wondered that. And I always thought that made the gun thing possibly a moot point if you get my meaning. 👍

NOTE; I actually love the idea of people doing this to protect other human beings, it's kind of beautiful. I just wonder if all hell wouldn't break loose for whatever reason. I also would like to believe this could be an example of facial recognition used for a GOOD purpose by perhaps pre-empting - and therefore avoiding - shooting domestic, armed protectors from external terrorist types. You have to believe that they have discussed this as a possible scenario in Counter-Terrorism circles, right? [i]Right...?[/i]

[b]EDIT:[/b] Thanks for the downvote, pal! Whoever you are. 👠👠 Some choice footwear for you. My way of saying thanks.

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Azlotto · M

"There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .... Allow me to restate that number: 600,000!

OWO

Over the last several months, Wisconsin's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.

(That’s more men under arms than in Iran .. More than France and Germany combined.)

These men, deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, to hunt with firearms, And NO ONE WAS KILLED.

That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan's 700,000 hunters, ALL OF WHOM HAVE RETURNED HOME SAFELY.

Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the Hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. It's millions more.

The point?

America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower! Hunting... it's not just a way to fill the freezer.

It's a matter of national security.

OWO

That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.

Food for thought, when next we consider gun control. Overall it's true, so if we disregard some assumptions that hunters don't possess the same skills as soldiers, the question would still remain... What army of 2 million would want to face 30 million, 40 million, or 50 million armed citizens??? For the sake of our freedom, don't ever allow gun control or confiscation of guns."

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Azlotto · M

@SW-User I will shoot back.

Are you a terrorist?

SW-User

@Azlotto Whoa.

Those numbers are crazy. That's gonna stay lodged in there now!