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Is it time for a ‘whiff of grapeshot’ to bring the rioters to heel?
American Thinker ^ | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/25/2020 4:37:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Black Lives Matter and Antifa have a pattern: Whenever they don’t like something, they violently take to the streets to show their displeasure. Significantly, their protests are not localized. In cities across America, residents are being trained that, if they cross the mob, the mob will destroy them. Over five years, with accelerated speed in 2020, state and urban governments across America, by embracing the mob’s “defund the police” policy, have ceded their streets to the mob. This cannot continue. It is destabilizing America, especially now that the mob makes implicit and explicit threats of future violence if Americans don’t vote for Biden, the mob’s preferred candidate.

In times past, the great mass of a polity’s citizens had no say in their governance. Throughout the world, most political systems were tyrannical, with the tyrant being a monarch or theocracy – or, in many cases, a fusion of both. These bodies imposed their will on the people, dictating the all-important taxes, as well as imposing rules about property ownership, war service, rights to land and water, etc.

A wise ruling class made sure that the voiceless people were at least minimally happy. Corrupt, foolish, or evil ruling classes did not, instead controlling the people through force.

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When the people could no longer handle the tyranny under which they lived, they resorted to the only weapon they had: The mob.

*snip*

So, here we are in 2020, and the mob has done something never seen before in history: It has allied itself with the ruling class against the middle. The ruling class wants absolute power, unhindered by our representative democracy. The members of the mob want their spoils – the emotional gratification that comes from wreaking havoc and acquiring the power of fear over others, and the practical benefits of looting.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm
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1 posted on 09/25/2020 4:37:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Hate to sat it but it looks a lot like 1930’s Germany. A certain groups wants to force itself on the country using mobs of Brownshirts.


2 posted on 09/25/2020 4:41:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Double canister is better.


3 posted on 09/25/2020 4:42:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RoosterRedux

True therefore head shots would be more effective. Judiciously chosen.


4 posted on 09/25/2020 4:43:25 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: RoosterRedux

I do not have a problem is offing a few rioters, looters, arsonists and other terrorists.
Right now they don’t believe that anything will ever be done to them. When a few are given dirt-naps, then they will wise up and stop this nonsense.


5 posted on 09/25/2020 4:44:32 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Grapeshot. ... beautiful sentiment.

No. 4 turkey loads at 100 yards ought to do it.


6 posted on 09/25/2020 4:44:33 AM PDT by nonsporting (.Only hits count.)
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I have long thought there should be snipers overlooking this mess.

When that cop was hit with a baseball bat, the guy should have been dropped with a shot to the chest.

When those scum tried to set a police station on fire with men inside, they should have been taken out.

When rioters were throwing large fireworks at police, they should have been whacked.

I don’t get this.


7 posted on 09/25/2020 4:44:36 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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the MSM is stoking the riots and murders up.
it is what they do BECAUSE there is no accountability.

the MSM should pay when they do this,
with their license AND THEIR LIBERTY.


8 posted on 09/25/2020 4:45:10 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: RoosterRedux

that’s called “escalation”


9 posted on 09/25/2020 4:48:52 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: BuffaloJack

Agreed. I believe it is going to take dropping a few “protesters” aka rioters and arsonists. Maybe a few dozen. Once that happens a lot of these fools will realize its not so fun to play stupid games when someone you never even knew was there is ending people just like you. That will keep the bored “let’s go play revolutionary” type elements home. Hard to hold a riot with just a few paid stooges.


10 posted on 09/25/2020 4:49:55 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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Hose them down with raw sewage from a water cannon


11 posted on 09/25/2020 4:55:10 AM PDT by okie 54
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Because this is occurring in cities where, for the most part, Radical Lefties run the governments and Soros DA's are in place, snipers would be arrested and charged while rioters run free.

On top of that, the snipers would be the news national-wide, with the media screaming that killers are picking off innocent protesters.

12 posted on 09/25/2020 4:56:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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The rioters chant “black lives matter” because chanting “Biden for president” just doesn’t have that hipster ring to it.


13 posted on 09/25/2020 4:56:54 AM PDT by cabojoe
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Some of these actions could be accomplished if the militia came out. The media and the rioters would be upset, of course. But the police could shrug and continue to follow their current policy of not actually enforcing the laws. The rioters would realize what a dangerous environment they were in, and they would likely insist that police change their policy and actually enforce the law. At which point the city government could actually crackdown — on the rioters. They would then fade away because it wouldn’t be fun any more.


14 posted on 09/25/2020 4:57:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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With DAs not bringing charges or with rich leftists bailing them out, you tell me, what is the alternative?


15 posted on 09/25/2020 4:57:35 AM PDT by Obadiah
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mob = street democrat socialists


16 posted on 09/25/2020 4:58:00 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (She is b.s. crazy, Jim!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Correct. If you haven’t watched “Death of a Nation” it is time to watch it and learn. They played it at a Patriots meeting. At first it was boring. By the end no sound was heard from anyone. We were all petrified.


17 posted on 09/25/2020 5:01:59 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: RoosterRedux
Cheese plant wastewater cannon.

Just a suggestion.

18 posted on 09/25/2020 5:04:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The first sentence you wrote is true.

What is also true is that a baseball bat to the head is attempted murder, as are the other things I mentioned, plus seemingly countless other forms of violence.

There is video, there is always video.

The DOJ/FBI/Police showing the guy hitting the cop in the head with the bat, followed by video of a sniper round taking him out, with the pronouncement that it was attempted murder is what needs to happen.

And the strength to present this scenario in this fashion has to come from the top.


19 posted on 09/25/2020 5:08:53 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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Adjust and fire for effect!

CC


20 posted on 09/25/2020 5:11:08 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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