People with guns don't stand much of a chance against people with armies. Sure armies can turn on an individual, but that just means that particular individual has lost power, and that power has been transferred to whatever new individual commands the loyalty of the many. It's not imaginary, it's emergent.

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esseph 2 days ago | parent [-]

People vastly overestimate the power of armies.

Trump has gotten shot once, almost twice.

Shinzo Abe got murked by some pipes from the hardware store.

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jjk166 a day ago | parent | next [-]

And how are the people who shot these politicians doing now? How about the US and Japanese governments? Clearly shooting a politician doesn't mean either that you gain their power or that the power structure they led evaporates.

	▲	esseph 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My point is that an Army can't protect someone that people really want to die.

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mystraline 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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