Steve Scalise Shot during GOP Baseball Practice

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Does anyone remember what happened to Ronnie Reagan when he went from B grade actor to right wing maniac?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted ... ald_Reagan

The Reagan assignation attempt by Hinckley was not politically motivated. Although it was motivated by a mentally unhealthy bizarre unrealistic obsession over someone, so maybe it is applicable in that sense.

One of the hoped for democratic candidates for president in the next election is former SNL comedian Al Franken.

Hinckley wanted to impress his crush, actress Jodie Foster.

Yeah, but lone wolves killed two Kennedys, MLK, and nearly killed George Wallace tried to kill Gerald Ford...

One motivated nut can do a lot. Also, there were a lot of small domestic terrorist groups operating in the 60s and 70s... robbing banks, planting bombs, etc. I could see that kind of thing happening again...

These days liberals are buying guns too.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345

A variation on the old saying "a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged"

These liberals haven't been 'mugged by reality' however but rather by fantasy and innuendo from rampant yellow journalism.

(Because they don't what is their skin color, or how to use a toilet.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSMtP8bJO4A

Here is a demonstration. Of objectivity --
Can any one person come up with just a T-shirt, from scratch, a poster board, or one piece of bread. A glass of potable water.

Where is it all coming from.

A civil war would be unlikely but not impossible. All members of the military are sworn to support and defend the Constitution, not politicians. I have heard incredibly detailed and sophisticated political debates on the mess decks when I was stationed on ship. We are not mindless drones or enforcers. As a matter of fact, it is actually illegal for any active duty military to do anything in a domestic law enforcement capacity because we do not have police authority. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 restricts use of Army and later Air Force for domestic policy enforcement(Navy and USMC have own regulations for it). So while required to obey lawful orders, if the primary purpose of those orders is not lawful (Constitutional) we morally and by oath are required to disobey and oppose such orders as given. However, if a service member were to do so, they better damn well be correct and able to prove it!

What you are saying would generally be true, but during peace time, afaic.

When under siege or natural disaster, refuseniks are regarded as unfriendlies or beligerents, not necessarily under a national banner.

Also, under the international framework, coalition forces, from foreign countries, are allowed to patrol their allies.

Private contractors have been acknowledged.

Posse comitatus can probably be subverted by countless more legal technicalities, generally beginning with destabilization.

It is cheap and easy to watch tactics, for days. Watch the systematic treatment, of civilians in foreign theaters. Compare it to declared states of emergency. And, tell me no pattern emerges. Same basic procedures as in Vietnam, Iraq, etc, etc, ad nauseam. It's not impossible to discern.

I'm being a little more far out, with this line of conjecture, but Rome was said to have used foreign mercenaries.

You give social promotions to change agents -- sexual, racial, and religious -- and gave them questionnaires, asking about their loyalty.

In our experience, they administer reverse prejudice as social justice.

They are not traditional, in general. Yet, you are invoking a tradition, against meddling with us.

And thus the original purpose of the Second Amendment would become crystal clear.

Legally making them terrorists, not afforded the same dignity as actual soldiers.

They went door-to-door, disarming the people or relocating them, outrightly.

That's interesting?

So if (hypothetically) a megalomaniac narcissist US president issued orders that were unconstitutional then who in the chain of command decides the order is "unconstitutional"?

Currently the GOP is bending over backwards to protect an unamed megalomaniac narcissist who is trying to "bend the rules to stay in power" I don't see the military or secret agencies or the congress doing anything particularly constructive to protect the aforementioned constitution

That is true. The Constitution is the law of the land and the military is an apolitical body. A service member cannot interject and attempt to overthrow the lawful government unless they are forced to make that decision by being given an order that they would deem contrary to the Constitution, by that government. Just as a person cannot challenge the constitutionality of a law that has been passed by the legislative body, unless they are aggrieved and file suit in federal court, subjecting the law to judicial review.
Once again, a service member that does something contrary to orders, if they fail to prove that the order was unlawful can be punished "as a court martial may direct". UCMJ Article 92

Interesting, so basically they have to stick their necks out and go out on a limb? no wonder the president is flaunting the law with relative impunity. He very well knows that his executive powers are unlikely to be resisted by his suboordinates

Yeah. We really would only be able to do anything if the S.H.T.F.