In the crosshairs

[substitute]

I’d like to show this to all those gun nut/militia types who want an assault rifle to protect them from “The Government”.

This is what it looks like when “The Government” comes to get you. Your camouflage hat and tricked-out AK will not help you.

Comments

[halfjack.livejournal.com]

Large calibre weapons disassemble humans. Especially rapid fire ones. It's worth pointing out that that Kevlar vest isn't going to help much either.

It has always struck me that militia fanatics are really arming themselves against police, and not the Government. Which frankly I find a more frightening objective.

[circumambulate.livejournal.com]

I used to go rafting on the John Day river, and twice a day the Oregon Air Guard goes ripping up the canyon in F-14's. It always made me glad I wasn't ever going to be on the receiving end.

[stimps.livejournal.com]

HO
LEE
FUCK
=(

[halfjack.livejournal.com]

I think one of the things that bothers me deeply about this is the lack of context and follow up. Why was the Apache there? What did the tube turn out to be? Did anyone even check? Someone needs to be down there asking the essential question: WTF? So as it stands the video imagery is just a shocking display of force without any good information about the rationale or the result. Besides the corpses, I mean -- that part of the result is obvious.

and! and! and!

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

Why is it that said gun nuts are often in favor of military buildups? If they fear government coercion, that's kind of backwards.

And what do you mean by the government? We underfund our army, precisely so that a lone NO FEAR cap guy can retake Saskatoon.