You forgot Option #4:
Federal government moves in and gets rid of these morons and no one outside of people who already think Obama is the Antichrist and a secret Muslim conspirator gives a flying fuck. Because, seriously -- outside of the militia movement, they're not going to find support.
Even Cliven Bundy isn't particularly supporting his own son, nor are the Hammonds. Ammon Bundy and these other idiots are pure opportunists, plain and simple.
It's no coincidence that the militia movement lost steam in the late 90's, because the Feds had killed or jailed a number of their leaders. Then they were willing to sit idle when Bush was in office (despite his own fucking with civil liberties) and only began to spin back up towards the last 2 years of his tenure. Then once you had a black Democrat as President, they went into overdrive recruiting mode. Now they think they're strong enough (and the government is weak enough) that they're testing the waters. If you don't want to continue seeing escalations from these people, you make sure that they find those waters very, very bitter to drink.
Strife, you took an oath to defend America from its enemies, foreign *and* domestic. I would classify these as domestic enemies.
https://twitter.com/amandapeacher/status/683680646611382272("I didn't come here to shoot I came here to die."#bundymilitia, (will ID only as "Capt. Moroni"))
Yeah, that doesn't sound like people just trying to make a peaceful point about government overreach. It's the Christmas season, I say we give him his wish.