I’m not sure where you’re going with that.
I meant my comment as tongue in cheek. Thus the little winky-face at the end. I think you got that.
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But you bring up some interesting history. It’s been done before. NY Draft Riots (1863). Lincoln deployed Federal troops to put down riots over Civil War draft rules:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
More interestingly, the founder of the New York Times, Henry Raymond, had Gatling guns installed at the entrances to his newspaper. When the rioters showed up, Raymond manned one of the guns himself to repel the crowds.
Can you imagine the Senior Editor/owner of the NY Times today manning a machine gun in the Times lobby to fight off antifa or occupy rioters?!? Great Fun!
How times have changed.
(I wonder what ever happened to those Gatlings. Still in the basement perhaps?)
Oh, and the Guard should have been deployed to Chicago years ago when the city became more dangerous than Baghdad.
FReegards,
Kit
That’s just my favorite story about why it is so dangerous to have actual federal soldiers instead of national guard inside the country.
It came to mind with illegal aliens protesting in the US. What would happen if they were Russians?