>>508312997We're used to it, we already had hundreds of years of press-ganging for the navy, guys would go out for a little drink, get clubbed over the head and spend the next thirty years in the rigging.
I don't think the army would survive if it went door to door though, guns or not the recruitment parties just aren't making it back to base, even during our harshest times, army recruitment never tried it that way, always sought recruits with charm, tricks and promises instead.
You can take an unwilling man to sea, as he is trapped by the vast ocean unarmed and even then you risk mutiny or escape at port. But on land, armed, you need him there voluntarily.