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Originally posted by FarArcher
Kent State - frightened, untrained National Guardsmen.
Ruby Ridge? BATF and FBI
WACO? BATF and FBI.
Not one of these happened with the US military.
One might note that folks in the US are very edgy around federal assaults nowadays.
And by the way. The fastest way to keep someone from shooting at you, is to drop him with a more accurate shot.
Accurate fire also seems disconcerting and throws off their aim even further.
Originally posted by Skippy1138
One of my Liberal friends was posting on his Facebook page yesterday about how "Oh couldn't the people of Iraq done the same thing the Egyptians did and then we wouldn't have these horrible wars and no US soldiers being killed and all the money spent etc etc...." and I pointed out to him that if the Iraqi people had tried to do this under Sadaam he would have slaughtered them in the streets by the hundreds and not batted an eye...
Same thing happening in Bahrain unfortunately...
Originally posted by FarArcher
Big difference between federal agencies and the US military.
Originally posted by FarArcher
Gangbangers have the same weapons as well, and yet I would never use that as a basis to lump them in the same group as the BATF or FBI.
Originally posted by FarArcher
The last time Americans got together and protested? The 2010 elections for one.
Originally posted by FarArcher
We're coming apart at the seams here in the US, so if things aren't squared away in the 2012 elections, I fear to see what will happen then.
Originally posted by FarArcher
Too many pissed off, law-abiding Americans - who won't be law-abiding much longer.
Originally posted by FarArcher
And when things get sideways here in the US, a lot of old scores will be settled, and some troublesome groups will be firmly addressed.
Originally posted by FarArcher
reply to post by IAMIAM
Yeah. Well. Gandhi never tried his routine against Pol Pot. Or Adolph Hitler. Or Saddam Hussein. Or the warlords of Somalia.
Ghandi's approach worked against a civilized, yet tired world power who had already made a deal. A deal to help in WWII in exchange for independence.
There's two kinds of people. Those who understand the use of ruthless force to meet ruthless force, and those who haven't actually faced ruthless force yet.
Americans are pissed because their once decadent lifestyle is starting to mirror the rest of the world. When we stop seeing borders and start seeing mankind as one common family, then Americans will have a moral justification to be angry, not at what has been done to them, but because of what has been done to our whole family. The world need to revolt as one. The days of being lead are well in the past. This revolution cannot be one of violence, but of peace.
Originally posted by FarArcher
Well, I can't say I served in the Marines.
I served in Special Forces, carried four MOS's and have my "V" devices on ribbons from combat. Statistically, we enjoyed a 100:1 - 150:1 kill ratio.
I was not taught to fight from my fixed position. In fact, while the regular Army/Marines kill ratio was 4:1, those uneducated, illiterate natives WE taught had a 33:1 kill ratio.
Don't assume anything, friend. That can often enough be a fatal mistake in bad situations.
Hell, anyone can die. Dying's easy.
Living's hard. Fighting's hard.
Fighting for others to preserve their lives is the hardest of all.
You and yours can die all you want to.
I may go down, but it won't be cheap.
Originally posted by JAGx1981
Not accurate at all....I have to disagree with what you think you know and throw some facts out there for you. I was in the eyewall of Katrina and afterwards NO ONE touched my guns nor tried to. No one touched anyone on our streets guns either. Maybe in New Orleans in some instances, it was too out of control, they had no overwhemling power over us inland though in Mississippi.
We were basically forgotten for more than 25 days without power and running water. I have no idea where you got that from though, if that was the case our whole city would have been arrested. I even talked to alot of them and police with my gun on my shoulder how we would shoot looters.
Originally posted by IAMIAM
In the end, I had to face the harsh reality that the civilian population simply does not stand a chance through force of arms. Your ego may tell you otherwise, it may sound good around the gun club, it might seem macho on an internet forum, the bitter truth is you do not stand a chance, and every gun totting redneck knows it
Thank God the Egyptian army would not fire on its own citizens. If the time comes in America, I think our citizen - soldiers won't either.
And for the person who suggested that this firing on civilians may possibly happen here in the US, it won't happen but once.