stackyFACTSA medical professional witnessing massive battlefield casualties decided the best cure was overwhelming firepower. He genuinely believed that creating a rapid-fire machine gun would allow single soldiers to do the work of a hundred, thereby shrinking military rosters and saving lives. His logic was catastrophically flawed.
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