They would.
Just for fun, here are some numbers to think about.
There are 1.2 million residents in Oakland County Michigan. Of those, it can be safe to assume that half own guns. It has been said that only 3% of people will actually stand up and fight, when SHTF. Thats about 36,000 people willing to fight to the death for our freedoms.
There are currently about 1200 employees of the Oakland County Sherrifs Department. Of those, only about 1/3 are uniformed street cops. The rest are desk jockeys, and pencil pushers. That leaves about 400 beat cops. Of those, a clean half are oath keepers who would, if SHTF, more than likely stop the other half from going against the civilian population, assuming they all came to work. Thats not likely, considering that during Katrina, most of the officers never showed up, and that was over a storm, not a war. So you have 200 cops left at a maximum. Then there is the military. all 2 and 1/4 million of them. Ok, to keep the math easy, there are 50 states, leaving 50,000 soldiers per state. There are 83 counties in Michigan, so assuming that there are an equal number of people in each county, which there are not, that leaves 600 soldiers per county. As with the police, there are about half the soldiers who would attack civilians. The rest of them would uphold their oaths. (I have spoken to soldiers who would not only disobey an order to attack civilians, but have said they would fire on their fellow soldiers who tried it) So...at most, you have 200 cops, and 300 soldiers vs 35,000 well armed civillians willing to fight to the death. And that's just in Oakland County.
futile?
