[tjinaz]

You too are making quite a few assumptions. If no one will heed the orders, what are you so afraid of?

Not no one. There will be some but it will be quite a split. Nothing, when dealing with people is ever that absolute.

Liberal leaders who promote gun control are sympathetic or are allied with an authoritarian government that will assault it's people?

Actually in this country ... Yes. . The two factions are ideologically divided on the fundamental role of the government. One side believes in the smallest government interference in people's lives, the other that government knows best and should control much more of people's lives. The second amendment is viewed as a fail safe built into the constitution against authoritarian government. Any government that tries to remove it will not be viewed as friendly by a very large part of the population.

The "ground pounders" may have been somewhat more "red", but that has far more to do with economic reasons than valor. Poor people go to war. It's an unfortunate fact

Maybe in the Vietnam era with a conscription army not in a volunteer military. They no longer tell you what your job is. The recruit picks their career field and signs a contract. If I am poor and chose to join the military for strictly economic reasons why would I chose combat arms instead of a technical field? It is uncomfortable, dangerous. and leads to no career on the outside. The vast majority do it because it is a calling. Maybe they hunted their whole lives or their father or grandfather was infantry or maybe they just want adventure or to fight. Same with Special Ops but much more to the extreme. That truly is a calling, very smart people putting themselves through great hardship because they want to make a difference. The poor kid forced to be a bullet catcher died out in 1973.