During the Vietnam war, there were approximately 570,000 men classified as draft offenders. 210,000 were formally accused of draft violations. Of those, only 8,750 were convicted, and 3,250 were jailed.
A lot of people burned their draft cards too, probably over 25,000 burnt draft cards. Of those, only **fifty** men were charged with draft avoidance, and **forty** were actually charged.
None of those men¹, card-burners or other draft-dodgers, served their full sentence. If a draft were implemented soon for a larger world war (which likely won't happen, but keep your eyes open) the level of draft dodging would be inhuman. Nobody would be for it. It'd be an offense so widespread that prosecution on a serious level would be completely impossible. The risks would be so low that it'd be in your favor to do so because that's one more impossible-to-prosecute offense. This is good information to have on hand.
Let's go through those numbers again, percentage-wise now. 570,000 draft dodgers (100%) -> 210,000 accused (36.84%) -> 8,750 convicted (1.53%) -> 3,250 jailed (0.057%)
¹ Can't find data on this one. This is a memory. Feel free to prove me wrong.
What do they think will happen next when people run out of basic supplies? Hungry people don’t stay hungry for long.