Posted on 12/27/2015 7:57:50 AM PST by rktman
There is one other inconvenient fact here. Honestly SEALS are nothing special in the context of civilian street crime shootouts. The average civilian enthusiast is every bit as good, and often better.
There is this fantasy, nourished by hit movies, that SEALs are some modern love child between a ninja, Wyatt Earp, and James Bond. Masters of every weapon known to man. The truth is that they are very good “soldiers” but not fully what people expect.
They have a rather narrow focus when it comes to guns.
The average military shooter is very very good with military weapons, in a military context.
The copious time spent learning parachuting, swimming, driving tactical vehicles, exercising, radios and communicating, surveillance, sniping, spotting, mission planning training, photographing, navigation on water, and land, directing supporting air and fire support. etc etc... does not make one a better shooter.
It makes one a better war fighter.
But when it comes to the use of a gun in day to day life. Their opinion is little better than average. When speaking of defensive shooting, how and when it happens, or the legalities, they are quite often less skilled that you and I, or than a good cop.
So sorry the dude got shot. Now he should shut up and go away. Read a book, get a hobby. Talk about the war. I doubt if he’s 30. Go be seen and not heard on grown up topics.
5 will get you 10 that you could hand that dweeb a 357 mag and a speedloader and he would be momentarily stumped.
To those, even here on Free Republic that often state, only military veterans should be qualified for the presidency.
The one thing the President does that no one else does is send our people into war. It is sorta nice that the person doing that has at least some minor knowledge of the military. Certainly that is no sure thing to be good as just look at John Kerry.
Well, your blog-pimp link did not work for me. I suspect it is because I’m in Indonesia.
Don’t bother fixing it. I’m not interested any more.
It was about a year or so ago some cowardly assassin started shooting in a mall and when he saw a citizen with a sidearm coming at him he blew his own brains out.
I think you are one of the few that really understand.
USN pre Vietnam.
Lpl. Sorry but I gave it a shot anyway.
As I recall, the last seal to get involved with Kelly got torn up by a pitbull.
Police are called to a hotel. A woman claims that she was chased down the hall by a naked man who was a Naval Aviator. The police ask how she knew he was a Naval Aviator if he was naked. She replies, "He had the biggest wrist watch I ever saw."
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