I know it was because of Versailles, but letting over a million trench warfare hardened soldiers just go unemployed when the Weimar regime reorganized the Reichsheer to comply with the treaty was possibly the worst possible thing that could have happened. Those guys had one skill, killing French and British soldiers in other trenches. When Freikorps groups ran around looking for manpower, they brought in all of those unemployed trench veterans and basically said “well you can’t kill Frenchmen and Tommies anymore, how would you like to kill communists and social democrats instead?” It wasn’t hard to convince them since they had no other options.
I live in the Deep South. We make fun of people who say northern cities are dangerous. You ain’t seen dangerous until you’ve been in the hood of New Orleans or Memphis.
Then I need you to give me the lottery numbers with your luck of serving on many juries.
The National Center for State Courts, an independent research organization has estimated that only about 15% of U.S. adults receive a jury summons each year, and fewer than 5% of those who are summoned end up on a jury.
We live in south Florida. We laugh at New York snowbirds that get their panties all knotted up when some local blows away a thief trying to steal the cat converter from their ass jacker 4X4.
Sheriffs down here basically tell Floridians if someone breaks into your house it’s open season.
Oh there’s crime but the deterrent is alive & kicking.