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The Mathematics of Violent Revolution (And How They Apply to the 2nd Amendment)
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Mark A. Taff
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At an annual chance of 0.8% per year, the USA has a 55% chance of a major violent revolution in any given 100 year span. At an annual chance of 0.5% per year, we have a 39% chance of a major violent revolution in a given 100 year span. On our soil. That’s just math.
These things are much worse than floods, and the people who suffer during them are largely not the elites running the show, they’re the people at the ground level, whether they’re participating in the revolution or not.
Syria is sitting at almost half a million dead and around ten million displaced into Europe and that revolution is still only about half-cooked. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(11/24/2017)
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Somebody is channeling Mr. Spock.
Revolution is an imponderable. Had Hillary been elected, I'd have said a revolution was a near certainty.....with Trump, it isn't 0% but it's perty darn close. But, then, who will be our next president?----and when? 2020 or 2024? |
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netsyscon
(11/24/2017)
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Revolution aka War. Guess what. People will die. Husbands, Wives, Son's, and Daughters. On both sides. It is a nasty,destructive thing. You think the military would prevent and squach it. Ya, like Afganistan. Just ask any military what it is like. It would rip our country apart for years and make us vulnerable to outside takeover. It would kill a good chunk of the population. Those who own weapons would be either dead or at the forefront of the fight. To the elite who think they are running this country, you would be the prime targets. Revolution is hell and should be avoided, but not discounted. And certainly not reduced to a statistical value.
Sorry for the rablings. To all I do wish you a safe and happy holiday season. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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