My point being that if you are the minority (see the 75% v 25% discussion), that majority has organised fire power that renders you insignificant.
That assumes the majority is armed or well organized, which isn't always true and definitely doesn't stay true for long. It only takes 10% of a nation's population to take over the other 90% with enough zealotry.
No I’m assuming that the majority has the police and Army (Hence-
organised fire power).
On the second point you are wildly naïve. Your law enforcement agencies are no different from those around/across the world, young men trained and indoctrinated to follow orders and use weapons. These forces when called into a tense situation and ordered to shoot the innocent, show very few qualms and in many cases demonstrate an enthusiasm to use that training, either through a misplaced sense of danger, pavlovian response to direct orders or outright sadism. (see Kent State shootings, Ludlow mines massacre, My Lai… ad-nauseam), how much easier when it’s bunch of crusty old boys in army surplus who have just shot the sheriff.
The "police and military are robot people" is either a result of you having no idea what the military or police really do or you live in an already oppressive regime.
Like I said, wildly naïve; For all the reasons and examples above.
I take it as the resident hard ass from the Flying 55th, your trump card is military experience.
So I will tell you a little story and hope it doesn't come across as a pissing contest, as it wasn't the best time in my life (and it has relevance to the above).
Back in the days when the British forces weapon(?) of choice was the SLR I was getting to the end of my basic training for the RAF at Swinderby. We were at the stage when all the flights (like a platoon) were in a marching contest in front of the top brass there, a week or so from passing out. It was January at a time when that meant snow, so it was in one of the hangers. There was repair work going on way up in the roof, suspended for the day but all the gantries and equipment was obviously still up there. Our flight was up and we were duly marching up and down as you do. A 2” x 2” piece of wood from the gantry dropped straight down and hit one of our front row breaking his collar bone and knocking him to the floor, we kept going, marched straight over the poor fucker adding various cuts, bruises, 2 broken ribs and concussion, picked up our rhythm and won the contest.
I did also know some proper soldiers too, my school friend, whose father was a Royal marine joined the royal engineers, his brother in law was in the horse Guards, did two tours of Ireland during the “troubles” left after 9 years and ended up in and out of mental institutions and finally disappeared presumed living rough. My Father -Blues and royals, Grandad- Sherwood Foresters.
Sooo… after all that bollocks I do have an inkling of what goes on in the military mind, and on the whole I was never impressed. For every good guy there were hordes of knuckle dragging numpties who in my opinion would have loved the chance to open fire on just about anyone, very few whose politics went beyond a reactionary stance that supported their choice to carry weapons and not one who I believed joined to make the world safer.
My school friend embraced the “squaddie” mentality served as many years as they would allow him and according to his brother is now a fat alcoholic willing to fight anyone, we lost touch.
Robots? No just young people drawn to the lifestyle, trained to kill/obey, in such a manner that they do so without doubt or question. That being the point, trust they will see the validity of your point when told to fire at your peril.