Olerand wrote:They'll get the guns. It's not that hard, the black market and foreign providers will ensure that.
No. To acquire sufficient numbers of weapons and ammunition to sustain a military force would require a centralized government and months if not years of mobilization. By the time that could be arranged, the Rightists will have long since shot any lefties attempting to do so. Looting the few legal gun stores that exist in the cities would not yield the numbers required to sustain any force, nor would individuals attempting to access the black market; foreign providers do not exist in ready form.
Though training will take time, that also can be acquired.
Which requires a ready to go centralized government with facilities and trainers on standby and then at least three to six months to get the first recruits out. In other words, by the time this is formed, all involved will have been lined up against a wall and filled with lead.
It's not as if the American right is already organized into some highly disciplined paramilitary force ready to spring into the offensive.
Look up the Militia movement and then the demographics/political affiliations of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Your last sentence is very colorful. You really seem to dread this outcome of the loss of human lives, no?
I'm making it abundantly clear to people, such as you, that the only outcome for Leftists in a partisan "civil war" is them rapidly getting eliminated. With that knowledge, their smartest play is to not play at all.
No such thing. The American right isn't some paramilitary super-force. Again, the American "left" will most likely lose, but that's not because they don't have guns, or because the American right (as much as some deeply wish it was) is manned by some ubermensch.
The American Left has no guns relative to the Right, which is well armed and who are well trained in their weapons. It's not a matter of ubermensch; it's a matter of one side having the ability to rapidly form into unit level combat groups to eliminate the other side, which doesn't have the same ability.