I fear the answer you might well get will be "bullets". The idea that you need means to less-harmfully disperse political dissenters and opposition only holds

I fear the answer you might well get will be "bullets". The idea that you need means to less-harmfully disperse political dissenters and opposition only holds if you want to live in a world where dissent and opposition are allowed. As an outsider, it seems very much like Americans (of all political stripes) are becoming increasingly intolerant of that.