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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] Sean: [QUOTE]I'd much rather have fought in WWII, where most of the time, you knew who was what, where the enemy were, and you knew that the Germans and Japaneese would stand and fight. Vietnam, you weren't sure whether you would be impaled by a pungee stick, or dissappear in the explosion of a grenade whose trip whire you just stepped on, or ripped apart by a blast of AK-47 rounds during an ambush.[/QUOTE]LOL! First of all, blaming an invaded small southasian country for not putting their army on a big field with the US army and slugging it out like 1880's gentleman boxers, that's almost approaching O'Reillyan levels of arrogance. Secondly, you think WWII was a clean, honest and EXEMPLARY war??? All the things you mentioned that you thought where bad in Vietnam where used many times more and with much more severe results than in Nam. Guerilla terror warfare and demoralizing trap techniques where revolutionized during WWII. I believe one faction had soldiers in trees, dropping long, heavy steel spikes into the heads of enemies passing by underneath. Regarding the thread topic, I do think it was indeed excessive force and jumpy triggerfingers have no place in law enforcement. Not everyone are cut out to be under-cover cops and the pressure and paranoia you'd likely develop is bad for judgement. But regarding police procedure during perceived aggression, isn't the strategy of firing for effect, in order to scare and make aggressors scared, a part of it? Personally I think it's shit and would more than likely make hesitant aggressors panic and respond even wilder than they would have, risking innocent bystanders, but I thought I heard somewhere that "unloading" was some tactic used in certain circumstances. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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