What are 10 things people will do before they die?

What would happen if a group of 10,000 intelligent and well-funded people wanted to kill all other people in the United States?

• I pose this mostly as a thought experiment. Let's assume that 10,000 people (all American citizens) have been secretly planning a large-scale attack on the United States, with the goal of completely gaining control of the country and "starting a new world" with themselves as the only inhabitants. By well-funded, you can assume that they have enough money to do (at will) things that any upper-middle class person can do (if they really wanted to).  So for example, they could: arm themselves with multiple guns per person charter airplanes take flights wherever and whenever they want to buy or rent enough housing for all of them etc. Essentially they can do anything that's "realistic" - for example they could not design a new nuclear weapon, or find a way to clone themselves over and over again.   So what do they do, and can they be successful?  What happens along the way?  What will pose difficulties for them?  As an example starting point:  The 10,000 people arm themselves with sniper rifles.  They spread out, flying to all corners of the country.  They each find a tall building they can get into, and at a predetermined time, quickly shoot 3 people each, and exit (possibly discarding their weapon to make it less likely they'll be caught).  A few of them may be caught and arrested or killed.  Most will make it out.  30,000 civilians just died. They repeatedly carry out (or attempt to carry out) attacks like this. How does this play out?  Can they be stopped?  If so, how? EDIT:  let's also assume that the group will be considered successful if 100 of the 10,000 survive and are living freely.  The group operates with this understanding (so, for example, if there was a way they would instantly "win" but 9,900 of the 10,000 would spontaneously die, the group would accept this and randomly choose 100 to live).

• Answer:

  We have adequate police and military forces to deal with something like that, on top of the millions of armed citizens. Society will quickly organize against the attackers until they are hunted down to the very last one.