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Re:House OKs Bill Allowing 'Mentally Incapacitated' Veterans... by maxerickson on Friday March 17, 2017 @09:45AM (#13893873)
Chain of command and training and logistics are at least as important to a military as rifles.

US hunters constitute a population armed with rifles, not a military.

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Re:House OKs Bill Allowing 'Mentally Incapacitated' Veterans... by ctdonath on Friday March 17, 2017 @10:00AM (#13894014)
Go look up the Swiss aphorism "shoot twice and go home".
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Re:House OKs Bill Allowing 'Mentally Incapacitated' Veterans... by maxerickson on Friday March 17, 2017 @10:18AM (#13894136)
Those words were uttered at a time when the Swiss militia had been called up and organized.
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