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2008-06-17 Home Front: Politix

City orders guns that fire special plastic balls

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2008-06-17 12:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 You may fire when ready, Gridly.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-17 13:05|| 2008-06-17 13:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe they can buy the ones in storage from the Boston PD. They were forced to put them away after they killed a girl in one of the Red Sox riots back in '04.
Make 'em an offer.

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-17 13:12|| 2008-06-17 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Back in the late 60s when 'rioting' was all the rage of the now 'boomers', the AZNG tested several techniques in crowd control. A rifle without bayonet, a rifle with bayonet sheathed, and a rifle with cold steel [unsheathed]. The crowd showed remarkable respect for the last combination.

All this is just another form of gradualism because no one want to be the 'bad guy' since we've lost our ability to identify the real bad guys. The other side will keep pushing the envelope on what it can get away with till either you get another Kent State [notice how many universities had building burned since then?] or the "authorities" collapse in retreat. Which in the end, will remove the constraints of the citizenry to take what ever is necessary to protect themselves, their families, and their property.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-17 13:14|| 2008-06-17 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I was there end of April for a meeting and spent 4 days. From what I hear from hotel, restaurant and taxi people - the city is nervous but not troubled. They figure the crazies are just that and since Denver is a city of crazies (walk 16th st. Mall at night) then there is nothing they haven't seen before and if its really weird they have nearby Boulder to consult.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-06-17 13:16|| 2008-06-17 13:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I have a SL-68 II with 18" rifled barrel, 8oz tank and 200 rnd hopper ready if needed.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-06-17 13:36|| 2008-06-17 13:36|| Front Page Top

#6 So you're saying the Democratic Convention might be worth watching...?

Posted by Thereger Bourbon6658 2008-06-17 14:18|| 2008-06-17 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 swksvoIFF, a whiff of grapeshot would work wonders.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-17 14:56|| 2008-06-17 14:56|| Front Page Top

#8 You want to see funny, you oughta see the INSANE conspiracy idiots who are having a cow over the military exercise with Blackhawk and Little Birds over downtown yesterday with what looked to be some special ops folks hanging off the side of the LB's. Love to buy them a beer if I knew what bar they were going to (the probably staged out of Buckley AFB - the only major active military installation close to Denver).

The nutjobs up from boulder are screaming is a coup, that having those helis in downtown are a taking our rights away (I asked one of them to document what right, and he was stuck then jumped subjects), that its a setup for Bush to declare martial law, etc.

I only suspected it before, now I am sure: these people in the Dem party are clinically mentally ill, bordering on insane. They need to be hospitalized and treated. Yet they are the ones who will squeal the loudest and set policy for the Dems under Obamessiah.

Start stocking guns, ammo and seed - the lunatics are truly coming to be in charge of the asylum.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 15:10|| 2008-06-17 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 All it will take is one nut case with a gun to turn a riot into a massacre. Things like Molotov cocktails and building arson. Much of it depends on how many experienced anarchists show up.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-17 19:14|| 2008-06-17 19:14|| Front Page Top

#10 The balls burst open on impact.

hell, the Chicago cops could do that in 1968 with a standard-issue nightstick

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-17 19:20|| 2008-06-17 19:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Mayor John Hickenlooper

OK, just HOW did he ever get elected with a humorous name like that?
Order mass hangings of comedians?
Close all radio and TV stations?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-06-17 22:41|| 2008-06-17 22:41|| Front Page Top

#12 All jokes aside, how about paintball guns loaded with Infrared flourescent dye mixed with Skunk scent.
Leaves a lasting impression and easy to find the perps with Blacklight wands.(And gas masks)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-06-17 22:53|| 2008-06-17 22:53|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 All jokes aside, how about paintball guns loaded with Infrared flourescent dye mixed with Skunk scent.

Skunk scent for skunks? They'll all be buggering one another in no time at all!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-17 23:00|| 2008-06-17 23:00|| Front Page Top

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