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SunSeeker

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16. Exactly. Shooting at police would have only gotten them killed quicker.

Reply to billh58 (Reply #14)

Mon Feb 16, 2015, 12:36 PM

Feb 2015

And the police would have called in government troops to finish the rest of the "murderous rebellion" off. The protestors would have lost the moral authority in the fight.

Gandhi didn't pick peaceful resistance just because he thought it was nice. He picked this strategy because that is what works when fighting for change within your own country.

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