As usual, Joe Huffman continues to make a lot of people (myself included) very happy that he is on our side:
Suppose you were to drop Dennis Henigan and Sarah Brady in the woods with all the guns and ammo they can carry. And a half mile away you drop in an Army Ranger or Navy Seal completely naked, one hand tied behind their back and a patch over one eye. If you tell them only one side can leave the woods alive I’m betting that by the next morning, despited being outnumbered 2:1 and out armed, the warrior will be walking out of the woods fully clothed, armed, and wearing Sarah and Dennis’s ears as a necklace.
Gun are tools used by people. Without the people the guns don’t kill, with or without guns people can kill. Guns just make violence against people easier. Sometimes that violence is for good and sometimes it is for evil. Most of the time guns are used for good. Reducing the access of guns to good people enables evil.
In my four years in the Navy, I never met a SEAL, at least not to my knowledge. I did, however, stand many a watch with a SWCC Chief (who had some very interesting stories), and I talked a little with the officers from the MARSOC detachment that hitched ride on my amphib during my last deployment.
From that limited exposure, I can say the following and be almost guaranteed of its accuracy: You could tie both their hands behind their backs, and possibly their feet together, and the end result would still be the same. Hell, you could outright hog-tie those guys, and I would still bet on the same end result. Those men were weapons, pure and simple, and they certainly do not need a firearm to kill someone. A firearm makes them more efficient, absolutely, but it is still nothing more than a tool for a warrior to wield.
Also, as an amusing, and slightly-related aside: certain MARSOC officers really suck at Call of Duty 4, and get… shall we say “annoyed”… when squiddy JO’s kick their Marine arses, despite having less than half the experience with the game they did. Also, grousing about “real world physics” does you no good in a video game…
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