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Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by gravypod on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:24PM (#10999708)
Who would win in a war: all of the US armed forces, or local farmers, most of whom cannot read, all commonly equipped with 20+ year old weapons most of which are bolt action?

Yea, I guess we can keep lying to ourselves that we won the Vietnam 'conflict'.

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Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by icebraining on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:45PM (#10999818)
It wasn't just local farmers armed with old bolt action weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Pro-Hanoi

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Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by gravypod on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:48PM (#10999827)
But are you willing to accept that the Vietnamese we where fighting were not as well equipped as the entirety of the US military and the local "official" government?
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Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by icebraining on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:51PM (#10999849)
Sure. But the US was also a democratic state where internal public opinion is influential. A single shot fired at Kent State was probably more effective than a thousand fired by the VietCong.
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