Because an idiot was trying to rig up one to explode , had it blow up in her hand , and the docs said it produced shrapnel <| sep |> Sorry to break it to you OP , but that ' s a backpack . <| sep |> Wanna go down to a bar and try to slay some big booty hoes ? For you , not for me . I ' ll be your wingman . <| sep |> I mean , there was The Civil War . Obviously not quite on the scale of either World War , but it lasted 4 years , and the highest estimates put the combined militarycivilian death toll at 1 million . At the time our population was only about 32 million . And the political and idealogical fallout lingers to this day . People still try to claim the Confederate Flag is a symbol of States ' Rights and the South , and try to rename it to The War of Secession in an attempt to legitimize the Confederate separation and to try to forget that it was about a state ' s right to slavery . And yeah , some people ended up with relatives and children who were trying to kill you . We burned down our own cities .