[editor-surveyor]

"Can you imagine being sent to a war zone and being issued rubber bullets? "

How many rubber bullets would you have to be hit with before you retreated? ;o)

[TomGuy]

How many rubber bullets would you have to be hit with before you retreated? ;o)

Cutsie remark.

But in reality on several occasions the guards ended up being attacked from rioting prisoners or insurgent groups trying to free prisoners. Their rubber bullets proved of little use, and the guards had to retreat until other military (with real bullets) came to their rescue.