by rdfox » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:43 am
I'mma go out on a limb here and say that's TOO out-there. Even if the average police department isn't going to have a stockpile of silver ammunition--and with the number of weres apparently in law enforcement, that might well not be so unusual--there's also the National Guard and active-duty military to deal with.
I don't care how quickly you heal, getting run over by an Abrams tank, shredded by one of its "canister" shells (basically, it turns the main gun into a five-inch-bore shotgun), or blown to pieces by an artillery shell or a missile warhead designed to shred tanks *will* kill you pretty much instantly. And don't think they couldn't--and wouldn't--be called out in that situation. In both the San Diego tank theft incident, and the Marvin Heemeyer "Killdozer" incident, plans were being enacted to call in helicopter gunships to end the situation when each one managed to disable his vehicle on his own. (San Diego, it was going to be Marine AH-1s out of Miramar, while the Killdozer incident was going to be National Guard AH-64s.) Not only could the Guard be called out en masse by the governor, but active-duty military units could be sent in by the President, as that would qualify as an "armed uprising against the United States" and thus be clear of any posse comitatus laws.
Gus, as a police officer, would know this. As would any were-equivalent of the Michigan Militia. And given that this wouldn't just blow the secret, but blow any chance of peaceful coexistence *after* the secret's blown, I'd put it firmly in the realm of "never gonna happen."
(Though my guess is that if it DID, Peter would try and find a hole to hide in somewhere, Sarah would wuff out and wade into the fray to mangle the genocidal weres due to her sensibilities being offended, Jean would most likely try to flee the area with as many of her friends and family in tow as she could manage, and Butch would most likely see it as an opportunity to slip away and disappear in the confusion.)
I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.