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		stavros on Aug 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across... > But wow, it would be a very different scene. Yeah, it would be a civil war with orders of magnitude more dead. I don't understand the American fascination with guns. When have they ever been useful against the government?

sokoloff on Aug 3, 2019 [–]

1776, 1789, 1848, 1917, and several smaller ones along the way.

The one in 1861 was ultimately not effective.

coldtea on Aug 3, 2019 | [–]

So, like a century ago, when the state was 1/10 what it is now?

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