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[theweaselking]

Two interesting things in this article:

First, despite constant searches and the pictured use of shotguns to get into inaccessible areas, these searches "respect rights and property".

Second, that perfect example of safety-providing Army manhood is Steven Green, the private who, along with other members of his unit, abducted, raped, and murdered a 15-year-old girl, and murdered her family.

"He had found direction in his life, something important and something that he really wanted to do."

Yeah, we can tell. Be all you can be, and all that.

Comments

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

I know this is largely a moot point, but isn't the use of shotguns by the military in warzones a contravention of the Geneva Conventions?

I think it's the same provision that prohibits the use of .50 cal rifles against human targets.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

#1: Shotguns as weapons are very different than shotguns as breaching tools.

#2: I wasn't aware of any such prohibition. This is not to say it isn't there, just that I don't know it.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1984/BGJ.htm

It's listed as #6. The prohibition isn't as total as I'd thought. And I'm aware of breeching guns, but as he doesn't appear to be carrying any other longarm, the shotgun would seem to be his primary weapon in the event of combat.

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's no longer "Be all that you can be", it's "An Army of One". An Army of One Psychopath, in this case, apparently.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

If you need to put one of the bad guys on ice, and all you have is a shotgun, you do what you need to do.

Shotguns are used as offensive weapons in combat. It's perfectly acceptable, given how the nature of warfare has changed since the inception of the Geneva Conventions.

The prohibition on .50 BMG weapons on human targets is also routinely bypassed. We normally use mounted 7.62 C6 Machine Guns. But we are bringing the M2HB back.

Our .50 sniper rifles are also used on human beings. How else can you reach out and touch someone at 2.4+ kilometres?