26-05-17, 05:14 PM
(26-05-17, 09:38 AM)Hedgetrimmer link Wrote: [quote author=Dudeofrude link=topic=22643.msg261362#msg261362 date=1495735788]
Putting the army on the streets does nothing more than intimidate the innocent and help keep US in check.
Not that I think that it's good thing that our lords and masters feel it has come to this, but why are you intimidated by our soldiers?
Can't see how it stops these nutters though. Although the point is being made that they are only being used at static facilities to free up other policing resources for the streets. Which is a finger pointed squarely at those who have cut resources and manpower down to the bone.
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Its not so much being intimidated by soldiers but more so guns in general.
Tell me this, hypothetically if you were out at say Alton Tower with your wife and kids and you saw armed police/soldiers walking around would that make you feel safer? Or would it make you feel on edge because they are only there because something might happen?
I dunno about you but I don't want my kids growing up thinking it's normal to see people walking around with guns.
Think back to the Charlie hebdo shootings in France, what were them guys dressed like?
Now what would be stopping terrorists dressing like army/police here when they wanna carry out a massacre?
You'd see them walk along with guns and not give it a second thought as you'd be so used to seeing armed solders day after day?
I know those of you from Northern Ireland would be used to it but I grew up in a normal safe environment where the only people with guns were the criminals and wannabe gangsters. I'very grown up under the notion that if they have a gun they're up to no good so get the fuck out the way.
And as previously stated it doesn't even help the situation. A bullet can't stop a bomb