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Originally Posted by Hugh
Well, it would be unsporting to shoot them before they had committed insurrection, wouldn’t it?
Anyhoo, that could be a dilemma, as the NG can be called up by the State Governor or the President, as I’m pretty sure Governors like Sanders or Noem would probably try to use the NG in support of Y’all Qaeda…
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The regular army can’t be deployed within the US unless it is an insurrection, although as we’ve now seen thanks to the insurrectionists of 6 Jan 2021, an insurrection doesn’t necessarily require mass shootings before it becomes an insurrection.
In practice though it is more likely to be the national guard that’s called up. A state governor can do that, or the president can go over a governor’s head and ‘federalise’ the guard and deploy them directly.