I'm not sure how much good a handgun is against them.
Waco will be the model for how they go about it.
Who will drive them?
MRAPS are not unstoppable, and they run out of gas.
Right now we have cops afraid to police certain areas. Were I live now, they will not go into certain neighborhoods no matter what for fear of lawsuits. If there was a real order to go out and load the rail cars, do you think the same people will do it? Against the most heavily armed citizens in history?
“Why do you think all those MRAPS have been staged with police departments throughout the country?
I’m not sure how much good a handgun is against them.
Waco will be the model for how they go about it.”
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Uh, take a look at how the Ukrainians dealt with APCs. Seriously, go to YouTube and search.
Also, take a gander at this article: http://madogre.com/OldMadOgre/Interviews/myths_molotovs.htm
Also, keep in mind an incident from WW2: Partisan leader Josif Tito (later Field Marshal and leader of Yugoslavia who, by the way, kept the 6 million strong Soviet Red Army out of his country) was asked near the beginning of the war, “How are your soldiers, armed with old rifles, going to take on the Wehrmacht, armed with new Panzers?” Tito’s response: “When the Germans get out of their new Panzers to take a piss, my men will shoot them with their old rifles.” This shows his tactical and strategic brilliance: you never take on an enemy at his strength (tactical), and you bleed him slowly but surely all over the place (strategic).
MRAPs are wonderful - when supported properly. A smart enemy won’t be anywhere nearby when that’s the case. He’ll attack the repair depots for the MRAPs, killing knowledgable mechanics and destroying vehicles there. He’ll have inside information, perhaps inside sabateurs, and take advantage of that. He’ll attack command personnel OR THEIR FAMILIES if it is a dirty enough war (see what happened in the old Yugoslavia after Tito died).
Brains over brawn.
Waco was a model of the gov’t surrounding a holed up target.
What happens when their perimeter gets a perimeter of its own?
What good is a handgun against an army? Google that very question.
Plan asymmetrically.
Oh, so the cops live in them? They eat and sleep in those vehicles? Or do they also have homes where their vulnerable families live?
When they come to your house, they will throw flash bangs right into your babies' cribs.
So if the citizens, instead adopted a 'fabian' strategy of waiting until the 'crab' had to come out of its 'shell', an MRAP is nothing.
Besides, those MRAPs are all parked somewhere and very vulnerable at all times. They are flammable. They are not enough.
Why do we think that because the enemy calls us onto the battlefield, we must confront them there? Why must we wait for them to kick our doors in? We can kick in doors too if it comes to that, no?
“Why do you think all those MRAPS have been staged with police departments throughout the country? “
When it comes down to the quarter finals instead of these scrimmages that are going on, those MRAPS will become flaming beacons of resistance.
Don’t underestimate the low key and cloaked resolve of the good old boys and rednecks that are the backbone of this nation.