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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by unethical_ban on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:53AM (#11290533)
>So is the thinking that people in the military would disobey commands and join the uprising?

Yes. tl;have work to do: The knowledge of the potential for large portions of the population to resist oppression by use of small arms is sufficient to deter governments from radical, direct assaults on human rights.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by pjc50 on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:32PM (#11290874)
The knowledge of the potential for large portions of the population to resist oppression by use of small arms is sufficient to deter governments from radical, direct assaults on human rights

No it isn't; the US has massive gun ownership and direct assaults on human rights. Especially of nonwhite people. The US never really "signed up to" human rights in the modern (postwar) sense.

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