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  Troop numbers in Afghanistan peaked at around 140,000. That’s counting all of NATO. 
  There are around 650,000 law enforcement officers in the US. But we also have an overall population that handily dwarfs that. Even if you took out everyone who would refuse or be unable to fight it still wouldn’t be close to even. Then you have to account for mass desertion and resignation from the military and law enforcement if things like that started happening as well.
  There are also a bunch of other variables that make that comparison sort of useless.
  Also keep in mind that’s the same intelligence apparatus that gave me an important update in the middle of a patrol in Afghanistan to “be on the lookout in block 2 for an insurgent doing insurgent things” and the one that patted itself on the back for killing the Kabul ISIS-K bomber only to realize afterwards that they had bombed an NGO worker and several other people who had absolutely nothing to do with it.
context: It's obvious. And here's another thing they won't like. This is a feature of American life. It's not going away. It's the second ammendment. There's almost no way to affect meaningfull change. Sorry. The murder rates will remain high, school shootings and mass murders will continue at alarming rates, because the second amendment was a mistake. In a world where the CIA kills people it can't identify on the other side of the planet with missiles fired from robots based on their cell phone meta data, small arms are basically meaningless. The founders aren't to blame for this mistake really. They were definitely meaningful at the time, but they aren't now. But they're here to stay. >
  
  
  In a world where the CIA kills people it can't identify on the other side of the planet with missiles fired from robots based on their cell phone meta data, small arms are basically meaningless.
  
  Tell that to the Taiban. >
  
  Look at how many law enforcement agents are in America compared to the military members in Afghanistan. It's a comical comparison.