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Aristoph posted...

Rika_Furude posted...

the military is better trained than to use lethal force against civilians. non-lethal methods such as pepper spray, im sure theres some non-lethal gas they can use, whatever are what need to be used.

Again, they're trained to use non-lethal force on civilians who are not posing a direct threat. The moment an actual gun fires an actual bullet at one of the soldiers, non-lethal options go out the window. And rightfully so.

And again, this is America. So considering the only people who are going to go to this thing are absolute morons to begin with, it's really not much of a stretch to think at least one of them will be stupid enough to bring an actual gun.

I've spoken with an actual soldier regarding this, and the definition of "current threat" is very strict. A person aiming a gun at you is a current threat. A person who has, past tense, thrown an axe at you, is not a threat. Even if it was seconds ago. An unarmed civilian running at you is not a threat until they get within a certain distance. And I doubt there's a single person stupid enough to keep running at a soldier after multiple verbal commands to halt with a weapon trained on them.

But especially with this much of a heads up, surely the military can prep some sort of non-lethal mass detainment method. I don't know whether theres some sort of non-lethal gas that can be used or something similar but there's no excuse to go lethal unless something exceptional happens.
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