Beyond this, there is another important but also frightening question to confront.
There are, by most reliable estimates, more firearms in the US than people.
What militias and other domestic terrorists might do in the face of a mass mobilization in defense of democracy is hard to predict.
I don't know enough abt these groups to assess their current thinking and capabilities.
But others do.
The folks getting purged from the FBI/DOJ will know. Scholars who study rt-wing extremism will too.