[geggam]

All that tells me is you forget the lessons others have learned the hard way.

Experience is a dear teacher but fools will learn no other way.

[pjc50]

Again, we actually had an armed insurrection in the UK in Northern Ireland, including civilians being shot dead by the military, and it offends me to see people fantasising about political violence as some kind of first resort. It went on for decades, killing and immiserating a large number of people.