Posted on 04/27/2007 3:47:48 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Thus the Schutzstaffel (SS) or “protection squad” was
I think a .50 caliber could set a 747 on fire while sitting on the runway with an incendiary round quite easily. You don’t have to hit it in the air when it is essentially a rolling fuel tank with people on board.
If one were to get in the right spot at a busy airport I would imagine you could do tremendous damage with a rifle and cartridge designed to destroy light skinned vehicles.
I don’t imagine we will see a publicized test any time soon but from my time with Uncle Sam and the shooting I have done with .50 caliber rifles as a civilian I would bet you could light a commercial aircraft on fire quite easily.
Unfortunately, the majority of the younger soldiers agreed with this question:
46. The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-approved firearms. A 30-day amnesty period is established for these firearms to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a number of irregular citizen groups and defiant individuals refuse to turn over their firearms to authority. Consider the following statement: [SD D A SA NO] "I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government."
Sounds like Germany in the 1930’s.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Appearently Dan has never read, “Unintended Consequences”.
just a bump
Imagine the weeks of outrage if an alleged conservative suggested these gestapo sweeps to round up a liberal interest group like abortionists or perverts or welfare frauds.
Politicians at all levels from both sides of the aisle would trample women and babies in their rush to a camera to publicly denounce the idea.
Congress would stage investigations. They would push through a TOLERANCE (Treat Our Leftist Enemies with Respect; Allow No Christian Expression) Act to ban such speech in the future.
But when the liberals openly talk about doing these things to us, it's free exchange of ideas or some such garbage and the only place it's criticized is to each other on the rightwing blogs.
Dan Simpson, come and take them.
I am having a hell of a time finding the survey or official results on the survey.
I was able to find this link on Free Republic (of all places) discussing the survey (http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a385270a0236b.htm). Serious questions about the survey are raised of course. It seems, according to some posters, that a large number of Marines refused to take the survey, thus grossly skewing any results. Also the infamous question 46 results are broken down as such...
The Responses
Of the 300 U.S. Marines asked this question, 264, or 88% of them responded. The outcome of the survey was as follows:
Strongly disagree - 127 (42.33%)
Disagree - 58 (19.33%)
Agree - 56 (18.67%)
Strongly agree - 23 (7.67%)
No opinion - 36 (12.00%)
Total: 300 (100.00%)
That would mean over 61% disagree and could be assumed would not fire on American citizens in order to enforce gun confiscation.
12% reportedly have no opinion, and 23.34% would agree and hence assumed would fire upon American citizens. A disturbing number, but hardly a majority as claimed.
Again, I am having trouble finding certified results on line. If you have a link, please present it.
But until someone can show me a scientific poll was conducted and the results indicate that a majority of US Marine would fire on American citizens to confiscate firearms, I am raising the BS flag.
I was born in Missouri...
Show me!
Nice tought?
What a Maroon, he is from another planet, Space or Time.
I'm just a dumb okie...but if I can figure that out..so can the bad guys.
"The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. A thirty (30) day amnesty period is permitted for these firearms to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a number of citizen groups refuse to turn over their firearms. Consider the following statement: I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government."
"Based on the disagreement expressed by 61 percent of the Marines, Cunningham concluded that "a complete unit breakdown would occur in a unit tasked to execute this mission."
Twenty-Nine Palms Survey: What Really Motivated Its Author? by John F. McManus
The New American Magazine October 2, 1994
It appears that my BS flag was a good call. A majority of those surveyed (even in this grossly unscientific poll) would not fire on American citizens in order to enforce gun confiscation.
One other article I read on said survey a while back quoted one of the respondents (part of the 61%, I presume) as saying “I’d shoot the officer who gave me that order”.
-Eric
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