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Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by nomel on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:48PM (#32172104)
None of these are a "large fraction" of people.

edit: for an example, the entire US military is around 0.45% of the population. Only a small fraction of that is not purely support. Around 0.2% of the population are police. The vast majority never kill anyone.

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Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by ako on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:14AM (#32176654)
Millions of soldiers is significant, even if it is low in percentages.

There are more people in the army then there are women having abortions, so if abortions is a big enough issue to address, people killing in the name of should also be considered an issue.

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