@Elia
"Dear Occupy Wall Street,
Please be aware that fuckwads like this guy not only exist, but would gladly shoot you AND your family, possibly even the dog and cat as well."
Thus annihilating said fuckwads' own image, and thus themselves, in an act of insane socio-political seppuku. One word: Martyrs.
SSgt Rock, ever hear of one Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi? Despite attempts by their British Raj rulers - even they resorting to violence, as in shooting protesters - he advocated only peaceful protests by his followers. Who were unarmed.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led protests himself. Peaceful, unarmed Civil Disobedience against their white rulers.
Lech Walesa. Leader of 'Solidarnosc'. He & his cohorts protested peacefully against his Warsaw Pact Communist rulers. Similarly Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia, against their Soviet rulers.
Nelson Mandela. Whilst in his early years of leading the ANC he advocated the use of violence against their white Apartheid regime, in prison he had a change of attitude. When elected, he didn't wreak revenge against his former rulers; he didn't become another Idi Amin or Robert Mugabe, neither.
Look how far they got?
The phrase 'Be careful how you treat people on the way up. Because you'll meet them on the way down' exists for a reason. Nicolae Ceausescu and Saddam Insane didn't know it existed, until it was too late. As is Muammar Gaddafi right now.
Moral: 'The Ballot is infinitely more powerful than the Bullet'. That phrase exists for a reason too. Sinn Fein and the IRA learned this only too well.
We in the UK experienced their form of terrorism for 30 years. They failed. How the fuck do Al-Qaeda think they can succeed, where Hitler's Luftwaffe/V-1s/V-2s failed?
"THE LAND of THE FREE and THE HOME of THE BRAVE!!!!"
So you're referring to the UK again? All you had was Pearl Harbour in WWII.
"BTW, the Ohio National Guard is MUCH better shots now
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The British Territorial Army - whilst even they refer to themselves as 'Weekend Warriors' - are trained to the same standards as the regular army. Professional soldiers.
The phrase 'Friendly Fire' is of US origin. Funny, that. And not in a 'Funny-ha-ha' way, neither.
The only time I've seen our army - regular or 'National Guard'-esque Territorials - on our streets, is on the news. Helping civilians in floods, or similar natural disasters, as volunteers. As they have done in a similar relief role, in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti.
'Winning hearts and minds'. That phrase exists for a reason too. My nephew who's a corporal in the East Yorkshire regiment is certainly a good shot. Wielding the ex-IRA .50 cal. Barrett M82A1, he has to, as their sniper. His expertise came to the fore in Afghanistan, when his squad were called upon to deal with some Taliban holed up in a village, using such as a base - specifically their mosque - and it's citizens as human shields. From several hundred yards away, he was not only able to give covering fire for his comrades (as they dealt with the civilians' captors), but took out those in said mosque - even through it's walls (spotters gave him info on their location, and who was non-combatant & Taliban), via his infra-red thermal sight. Every one of said Taliban were eliminated, with not one civilian harmed. His regiment became very popular in that Afghan village.
Professional, disciplined soldiers. Winning hearts and minds.
