@adam I don't contend, short of revealing technology that reverses prime factorization (hence breaking most encryption we use today), that the Government will shutdown every machine processing transactions.
I'm saying that if the US Government dreams up some laws that ban Bitcoin, they're in essence putting a .45 to the foreheads of ISPs, exchanges, and everyone you're transacting with.
Will Bitcoin be "dead"? Technically? No. Practically? Yes.