re: #209 Anymouse

Old saying: One man with a machine gun can control a hundred without.

The issue being is the hundred could most certainly overwhelm the one. The issue is none of them want to die.

That’s why military training is so intense on following orders, because the standard reaction is “run.”

Think also of police with tear gas against protesters, despite overwhelming numbers of protesters. They could overwhelm police, but do not.

Anger and desperation do strange things.

That is why you saw protesters getting in police faces at Ferguson even as laser aimpoints were on them and police fingers were on triggers. If the police had shot somebody on one of those nights, they would have been attacked.