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Opinions my taxes pay for? In America?
sandwarrior
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This reminds me of the crap in the late Bush Jr. administration of not allowing civilians to have the scrap brass that gets auctioned off.
Ex military doesn't seem to be our friend anymore....[:(!][:(!]
General McChrystal on AR-15s - from Morning Joe:
"I spent a career carrying typically either an M16 or an M4 Carbine. An M4 Carbine fires a .223 caliber round which is 5.56 mm at about 3000 feet per second. When it hits a human body, the effects are devastating. It's designed for that," McChrystal explained. "That's what our soldiers ought to carry. I personally don't think there's any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in America."
How many other retired military (especially those with high ranking commands) think we ought not to have an AR-15 or assault weapon of any kind?
This very much surprised me considering his background.[xx(][V][xx(][V]
Ex military doesn't seem to be our friend anymore....[:(!][:(!]
General McChrystal on AR-15s - from Morning Joe:
"I spent a career carrying typically either an M16 or an M4 Carbine. An M4 Carbine fires a .223 caliber round which is 5.56 mm at about 3000 feet per second. When it hits a human body, the effects are devastating. It's designed for that," McChrystal explained. "That's what our soldiers ought to carry. I personally don't think there's any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in America."
How many other retired military (especially those with high ranking commands) think we ought not to have an AR-15 or assault weapon of any kind?
This very much surprised me considering his background.[xx(][V][xx(][V]
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There is no excuse for a military man to call for lessoning the national security of his nation by taking private arms when he can't say for certain if the US army could stop and defeat the next invasion of the U.S. Mainland.
We know what happens to Generals who have to surrender to a foreign army, look at Field Marshal Paulus after Stalingrad. His troops went into the Russian Gulags and only 5000 lived out of 91,000 and he lived in a State owned house under guard till after stalin died but he drank wine most nights.
There is no excuse for a military man to call for lessoning the national security of his nation by taking private arms when he can't say for certain if the US army could stop and defeat the next invasion of the U.S. Mainland.
Waco,
That is a good point. With all of our military might we can't seem to nail down Iraq (still very violent) or Afghanistan. What makes McChrystal think when they move here, having all of our guns removed is going to make us safer?
Those .223 guns are not on our streets or in our schools. Most of the guns used for criminal acts are handguns, not modern sporting rifles.
The answer to violence is not gun control. It is to work on the human failings that lead to violence.
......if my memory doesn't fail, it was obama in the spring of 2009 that stopped the sale of military brass.....[xx(]
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OOPS! I misunderstood the statement. I don't know who in congress was putting a stop to it. It could well have been Obama. I do know that G.W. Bush wasn't concerned at all that the military started "not selling brass to the public". My mistake was that Max Baucus was the one who opened the flow back up to the public. He and another Republican Senator both stated the money 'won't look good for the military', if they try this. One General even got fired down in Ft. Hood over continuing not to sell brass at public auction.
No, it was Max Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. When the military decides what to do with what traditionally has been Congress' realm. Congress gets upset.