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St Louis homeowners come out with guns when protestors enter their neighborhood
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[quote:Close_with&destroy:MV80NDQwNTAzXzgwODM5MDUyXzE4NEE2RjlC] [quote:Student of Truth:MV80NDQwNTAzXzgwODM4OTgyXzFBODk0RDND] [quote:Anonymous Coward 78146572:MV80NDQwNTAzXzgwODM2Nzk4XzkwNkNGNUE=] too bad a "protester" didn't bust a cap so the homeowners could have mowed them down with concentrated machine gun fire. :lol: [/quote] Yea, because people getting smoked is really fuckin funny. It is a sad and dangerous misstep to wish for violence especially in this climate. I was told by an old Iraqi man once that "every Iraqi you guys kill turns three families against you." He was right. War is already horrifically violent and deeply obscene. But civil wars tend to get more than personal and exceptionally brutal. Be careful what you put out into the universe. Thoughts become things. [/quote] Spot on! People that are wishing for a civil war, or outsiders like the poster from Russia that think we need to have one, have no idea what is involved or are simply evil. One need only what happened in the former Yugoslavia and/or Syria to see how vicious civil wars are. Look into American history, at our civil war and the American revolution. The battles between the loyalists and the colonials were bloodier than the battles between the red coats and the colonists. Very often no quarter was given, families were wiped out. There were often attacks that had nothing to do with the overall war, they were personal vendettas, revenge for something that happened in the past. These types of things are what happens in a civil war. I am not going to roll over and surrender for the sake of peace at any cost. I will fight, but I am not wishing for more violence. [/quote]
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While I don't necessarily agree with their tactics, which were inappropriate and tactically unsound, I think the message is clear that these homeowners aren't going to be easily intimidated. Interesting fact: The neighborhood the protestors are in is private property, including the streets. It's a very wealthy subdivision just north of Forest Park, on the west side of Kingshighway.
***ETA***Yes, they had every right to defend their property and persons, however, they should have been much smarter in how they did it.
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