text: In reply to message48232: I watched an interview about 25 - 30 years ago with some guy who was a US Historian big shot. H said if you compare the number of casualties, and deaths from the Civil war "For more than a century, the most-accepted estimate was about 620,000 dead. A specific figure of 618,222 is often cited, with 360,222 Union deaths and 258,000 Confederate deaths." from https://www.history.com/news/american-civil-war-deaths. The historian applied his knowledge of that war to modern day (equipment, tech., air power, armaments, etc. Including the point that about half the country then owned firearms. The historian said it would be surprising to see 1/3 of the US population casualties (dead and wounded). Today we have just over 331M population. But one would have to wonder how many jihadi's are currently sleeping in our Country, how many illegal allies that number includes? Either way~1/3 of our population is a big damn number to lose.