I think they’ll have the same beanbags, rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper ball ammunition as police. Deploying the military to fire live ammunition on protesters is a good way to turn a mass protest into a mass uprising. Why would they bother? It’d make more sense to use the same less-than-lethal rounds and let the protests fizzle out like usual.
Sure, but protesters already get shot. Is it somehow worse when the military does it instead of the police?
A bigger deal at least. Cops shoot people every day but the military hasn’t gunned down protesters since the 60s.
Yeah, but have you seen cops? They’re a paramilitary at this point.
I just don’t think there’s much of a difference.
The police still shoot with beanbags. Something tells me the national guard is using live ammo in the same scenario.
I think they’ll have the same beanbags, rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper ball ammunition as police. Deploying the military to fire live ammunition on protesters is a good way to turn a mass protest into a mass uprising. Why would they bother? It’d make more sense to use the same less-than-lethal rounds and let the protests fizzle out like usual.
Well if the George floyd protests are any indication, I didn’t see no less lethal on the guard.
At the same time, nobody fucked with them from what I saw, so that’s good I guess.
If military shoots fewer protesters, than that makes it a smaller deal. No?