RpgGamer Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Shots were fired from a US owned Blackhawk chopper in Miami last month into crowds of innocent people. Perhaps it'd have been nice to know these bullets were actually blanks and were part of an elaborate "training exorcise". Is this a heavy handed (and non chalant) nudge for the public to "get used to" heavy military presence? Are we training our military to invade/capture first world cities? What are we prepared for? What do they want us to be prepared for? And more importantly, how many bricks would you shit if you saw military choppers flying at low altitudes, laying down heavy machine gun fire in your home town? Quote Quote Anyone who likes tacos is incapable of logic. Anyone who likes logic is incapable of tacos. PSA: SaqPrets is an Estonian Dude Steam: NippleBeardTM Origin: Brand_New_iPwn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTanT Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Woah, what? This is crazy. 1 The only difference between Hitler and the man next door who comes home and beats his kids every day is circumstance. The intent is the same-- to harm others.[hide=Tifers say the darndest things]I told her there was a secret method to doing it - and there is - but my once nimble and agile fingers were unable to perform because I was under the influence.I would laugh, not hate. I'm a male. :(Since when was Ireland an island...? :wall:I actually have a hobby of licking public toilet seats.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ezee Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 And times like this I love living in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasignhagj Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 And times like this I love living in England. You guys don't even have a way to shoot back though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riku3220 Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I've lived next to an Air Force base for the last 5 years and there are always planes flying overhead. I don't think I'd notice if they started firing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezee Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 And times like this I love living in England. You guys don't even have a way to shoot back though. Why would we need to if people can't shoot us in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Giordano Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I seem to remember something about police being largely unarmed, but I didn't realize this extended to your military was completely unarmed.Prayers defend them. "God save the Queen" and whatnot. :razz: This is crazy, not in a bad way just uniquely interesting type way. Warfare is moving more towards urban combat nowadays and you don't need to be invading a first world country to be fighting in such cities. Every major city in the world has a complex series of roads, highways, bridges, and the building layout that comes with them. "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalf14141 Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I see it as training. Much like what the SEALs would do on July 4th in Coronado up until around 2001. Not everything has hidden meanings or deeper messages. What you see is what you have. Training. Finally on here to update that I have officially quit! It's been fun.[hide=Signature]R.I.P Billy Mays and <3 My Friend C.D.S 7/8/09 <360,816th to 99 Fletching 03/07/09|220,309th Person to be Able to Kill Dusties | 10 Year Cape on 12/20/14[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nine naked men Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 They do drills like this pretty often. Now if this had anything to do with psychics maybe we'd have something interesting to chat about. sleep like dead men wake up like dead men Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jasignhagj Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I don't doubt this is a training routine, but it seems a bit inappropriate to do it without notice. Seeing something like this in person, it would be quite forgivable to mistake it for the real deal. Agreed. A few years ago they did a big urban military training operation here, but the area was blocked off and everyone was informed of it beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaida23 Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I'm all for training, and really the best place to train for mobilizing within an urban area is, well, an urban area. But why would they need to be firing blanks over the heads of unsuspecting civilians? It seems to me that all that would do is cause panic. Check out my blog to read the Adventures of a Big Damn (F2P) Hero. THE place for all free players to connect, hang out and talk about how awesome it is to be F2P. So, Kaida is the real version of every fictional science-badass? That explains a lot, actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riku3220 Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I'm all for training, and really the best place to train for mobilizing within an urban area is, well, an urban area. But why would they need to be firing blanks over the heads of unsuspecting civilians? It seems to me that all that would do is cause panic.Training for the civilians. People wouldn't take anything else seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alg Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Now if this had anything to do with psychics maybe we'd have something interesting to chat about....Wait, we don't have a psychic warfare unit? That said, it probably would have been helpful to know about that sort of thing in advance. That sort of training seems like it would be very useful, but I'd hate to be the guy who has no idea what's going on when this happens. I painted some stuff and put it on tumblr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giordano Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Now if this had anything to do with psychics maybe we'd have something interesting to chat about....Wait, we don't have a psychic warfare unit?We have something similar. "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpgGamer Posted February 12, 2013 Author Share Posted February 12, 2013 The fact that they didn't inform the public before shooting blanks is what bothers me. I'm cool with military types training in whatever area, but the civilians deserve a heads up. This can easily be interpreted as a way of getting civilians used to military activity (as if anticipating severe military state like qualities from X government). The fact that this wasn't well covered in the news, and little panic seems to be spreading also worries me. Is America really this ready to roll over and just take what the military feeds us? What would have been done if one of those apocalypse nuts came out with an LMG and returned fire? They sure couldn't have gotten away with this in Oakland, or Detroit, or Camden. They'd have started an actual internal war. So why not let everyone know what's going on before sending in the Blackhawks? Quote Quote Anyone who likes tacos is incapable of logic. Anyone who likes logic is incapable of tacos. PSA: SaqPrets is an Estonian Dude Steam: NippleBeardTM Origin: Brand_New_iPwn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTanT Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Honestly I'd like to see them try to court martial someone for shooting them when they did that. I mean if I pull out a gun full of blanks and start shooting at cops they'd be justified in shooting me back. So vice versa should obviously apply. The only difference between Hitler and the man next door who comes home and beats his kids every day is circumstance. The intent is the same-- to harm others.[hide=Tifers say the darndest things]I told her there was a secret method to doing it - and there is - but my once nimble and agile fingers were unable to perform because I was under the influence.I would laugh, not hate. I'm a male. :(Since when was Ireland an island...? :wall:I actually have a hobby of licking public toilet seats.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpgGamer Posted February 12, 2013 Author Share Posted February 12, 2013 I'd sure as hell hope so Quote Quote Anyone who likes tacos is incapable of logic. Anyone who likes logic is incapable of tacos. PSA: SaqPrets is an Estonian Dude Steam: NippleBeardTM Origin: Brand_New_iPwn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTanT Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Wait isn't firing blanks in a public area illegal anyways? Because of potential issues of mass panic (like yelling fire)? Or is the government legally allowed to have less sense than a drunken frat boy? The only difference between Hitler and the man next door who comes home and beats his kids every day is circumstance. The intent is the same-- to harm others.[hide=Tifers say the darndest things]I told her there was a secret method to doing it - and there is - but my once nimble and agile fingers were unable to perform because I was under the influence.I would laugh, not hate. I'm a male. :(Since when was Ireland an island...? :wall:I actually have a hobby of licking public toilet seats.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giordano Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Or is the government legally allowed to have less sense than a drunken frat boy?Christopher Dorner kills 3 and becomes the most wanted. LAPD shoots at 2, officers get paid leave. I'm not sure about that one. 2 "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Gabe Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Or is the government legally allowed to have less sense than a drunken frat boy?Christopher Dorner kills 3 and becomes the most wanted. LAPD shoots at 20, officers get paid leave. I'm not sure about that one. Could you explain the bolded part? Three months banishment to 9gag is something i would never wish upon anybody, not even my worst enemy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaida23 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Christoper Dorner is an ex-LAPD officer (who looks like a fat LL Cool J) who's suspected of killing 3 people (including a retired police captain's daughter) and is the subject of a huge manhunt in California, and the LAPD have accidentally shot several people who were driving a vehicle similar to his (I think Giordano meant 2, not 20). It's gotten so bad that they've advised people who own these vehicles to not drive them until he's caught. The standard procedure (in North America anyway) for police related shootings is to put the officer on paid leave until culpability can be determined. As I understand it the reasons for this are two-fold: One, it lets the public know that the officer is off the street; and two, the officer isn't punished until it can be proven that he broke the law. 1 Check out my blog to read the Adventures of a Big Damn (F2P) Hero. THE place for all free players to connect, hang out and talk about how awesome it is to be F2P. So, Kaida is the real version of every fictional science-badass? That explains a lot, actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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