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Shooting demo uses real bullets, injures 16 (in France)
cnn ^
| 6/29/08
| do the dhue
Posted on 06/29/2008 7:58:35 PM PDT by do the dhue
A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left 16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were used instead of blank ones, officials said.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 16; bang; drill; france; military
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My prays are offered. It says four of the wounded are in serious condition. And it looks like an accident. If It is a accident, I pray for the person who shot. That would be a terrible thing to live with.
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To: do the dhue
Rule 1: All guns are loaded.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:04:42 PM PDT
by
null and void
(every Muslim, the minute he can differentiate, carries hate of Americans, Jews & Christians - OBL)
To: Morgana
This article is about 16 innocent people having been shot, including a 3 year old child who is in serious condition. Do you really think this an appropriate thread for tasteless jokes?
To: null and void
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:05:55 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: do the dhue
rem: ...folks; the French, Are nominally Pro-American now.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:07:55 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
To: GovernmentShrinker
What you said. Nothing funny here.
To: do the dhue
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:09:57 PM PDT
by
blam
To: do the dhue
Most guns need to be modified to accept blanks, as a blank doesn’t have enough power to cycle a new round and eject itself. Also, when the gun is modified it usually cannot be used to fire live rounds, the fact that he hit 16 people before realizing what was going on to me shows a possible criminal act.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:11:42 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: blam
Your story says 17 people wounded.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:11:59 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: LukeL
That is a great observation.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:13:28 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: do the dhue
Prayers up for the wounded.
The article says, "The soldier who fired the shots has been detained".
THE (singular) soldier????
Unless he was using a full-auto, and not watching his target, how the hell did he squeeze off 16 shots without realizing that he was hitting real people with real bullets???
Thank God there's not 16 dead, instead of wounded.
But something is terribly amiss here.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:13:57 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: skinkinthegrass
Yes, and I can not speak for y'all, but I have a high opinion of Sarkozy.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:14:34 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: LukeL
>
...when the gun is modified it usually cannot be used to fire live rounds, the fact that he hit 16 people before realizing what was going on to me shows a possible criminal act. I'm very afraid you may be right.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:15:38 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
They say it looks like an accident, but with this many wounded...
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:16:08 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: LukeL
the fact that he hit 16 people before realizing what was going on to me shows a possible criminal act. Interesting that the shooter doesn't have a name. If I were of suspicious mind, I'd speculate that he's a yute who growed up and joined the French Marines.
But I'm not, so I won't.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:16:45 PM PDT
by
null and void
(every Muslim, the minute he can differentiate, carries hate of Americans, Jews & Christians - OBL)
To: null and void
>
Rule 1: All guns are loaded. YEP!
And with live ammo, too. Never count on a blank, except for the one you just fired.
The story about how in a firing squad, all but one rifle have live ammo, but one has blanks, so that each shooter can tell themselves (if they care to) that they didn't necessarily kill the person being executed, comes to mind...
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:19:24 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: null and void
>
If I were of suspicious mind, I'd speculate that he's a yute who growed up and joined the French Marines. Possible terrorism? Wouldn't surprise me, sad to say...
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:21:32 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: do the dhue
Why in the world would they have been firing in the direction of onlookers? Even if they had been actual blanks, you never never never point a weapon towards a person unless you are intending to hit them.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:22:01 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Soldier soon to be training other Army Soldiers)
To: dayglored
One more thing, blanks can be lethal as well. If there is debris in the barrel it can be fired out and kill a person (Brandon Lee) the blank it self may have wadding in it which could kill too. Anyone with a lick of common sense knows you never point a gun at anything that you don't intend to shoot.
Exercises may be done in the military to simulate combat situations, but in this case it is soldiers against soldiers who both have much training and know what they are doing.
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posted on
06/29/2008 8:22:15 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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