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From: donb@netcom.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Proof of the Viability of Gun Control
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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 18:14:18 GMT
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In article <C5LCJn.23H@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) 
writes:
>>Wasn't that the 'Bonus Rebellion', when tanks were deployed against
>>US Citizens?  Grist for those who insist 'It couldn't happen here...'
>
>  But also grist for those who think that when such things DO
>  happen it means the end of the Republic is imminent.   The
>  Bonus March was 61 year ago.

By such things, do you mean any use of military forces against US
civilians?  Wouldn't Shay's Rebellion, just after the American
Revolution,  count as one of the first such instances?

    don




