Yea and the government made of US citizens. Have you really forgotten about the polarization of the US or are you just going to treat the 300M+ people as one homogeneous group?
Open a history book. Two important events you’ll find:
- the US government trying to use military against citizens resulted in a civil war and military fighting military.
- the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam wars have demonstrated quite clearly that armed insurgents cannot be eradicated by a massive power imbalance alone. People making IEDs out of stuff you can find at a Home Depot and randomly attacking military from within civilian populations using small arms was significantly effective.
“But muh gubment has fancy planes so people shouldn’t have guns” is about the dumbest argument you can make.
See, my point was that the government has been growing increasingly tyrannical and a good portion of the population has gone along with it whole-hog
Police have been increasingly militarized and its used against citizens on a regular basis
Which portion of the population felates the police on a regular basis and says they can do no wrong? The boot has been licked, brother. You can thank hyper nationalism
The US citizens wouldn't be able to stand up to the military anyhow