<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 15:52, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 9:56 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The commander in chief, generals and soldiers are reluctant to give or obey an illegal order because they think it is the wrong thing to do and, failing that, they are afraid of the reactions of others in the chain of command. If fear of citizens with guns were a deterrent then the US would never have been able to invade well-armed states such as Iraq.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Oh, the US invaded some countries with well-armed citizens, and time-and-again got their asses Kalashnikov-whipped in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other places.</div><div><br></div><div>And remember Geronimo? A few savages with guns, managed to terrorize huge swathes of land and were only captured once they got more or less bored with living on the run.</div><div><br></div><div>Guns work.</div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But do you really think the main reason Trump does not make himself supreme leader for life is that he is afraid of people in their homes with guns?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>