THIS IS AN UPDATE TO MY POST OF JANUARY 25th (Will you fire on US citizens?) http://cyberpolyticks.blogspot.com/2013/01/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html
Garrow’s
claim is even more explosive given that the country is in the throes of a
national debate about gun control, with gun rights advocates keen to insist
that the founders put the second amendment in the Constitution primarily as a
defense against government tyranny.
It also
follows reports on Sunday that General James Mattis, head of the
United States Central Command, “is being told to vacate his office several
months earlier than planned.”
Concerns
over US troops being given orders to fire on American citizens in the event of
mass gun confiscation first arose in 1995 when hundreds of Marines at 29 Palms,
California were given
a survey as part of an academic project by Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest
Guy Cunningham which asked the Marines if they would, “Fire upon U.S. citizens
who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States
government.”
The survey was subsequently leaked because many of the Marines who
took it were shocked by the tone of the question.
The US
Military has clearly outlined innumerable civil emergency scenarios under which
troops would be authorized to fire on U.S. citizens.
In July
2012, the process by which this could take place was made clear in a leaked US
Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” (PDF) dating from 2006. Similar plans were also outlined in an updated manual released in 2010 entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment
and Resettlement Operations.
The 2006
document outlines how military assets will be used to “help local and state
authorities to restore and maintain law and order” in the event of mass riots,
civil unrest or a declaration of martial law.
On page
20 of the manual, rules regarding the use of “deadly force” in confronting
“dissidents” on American soil are made disturbingly clear with the directive
that a, “Warning shot will not be fired.”
Given
that second amendment advocates are now being depicted as dangerous
terrorists by the federal government and local law enforcement, Garrow’s
claim is sure to stoke controversy given that Americans are seeing their gun
rights eviscerated while the federal government itself stockpiles billions of bullets.
Last
week, Gloversville Mayor Dayton King warned that any federal gun
confiscation program could lead to a “Waco-style standoff” in rural areas of America.
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