[Mark17]

I like what Thoreau said about it — the peasants should’ve thrown the pharoah in the Nile.

If they had some sort of 2nd amendment, they might have done exactly that.

[MUDDOG]

They could've used it.

At the end of the Napoleonic wars, the winners executed by firing squad a couple of his field marshals, who were themselves allowed to give the order to fire. I though that was kind of neat. (Not that they were executed, though.)