11-02-2018, 11:28 PM
I am with Fred on this one. If you're throwing stones at military in a huge mob, and you get shot, what did you really expect to happen? Gun or not, thrown rocks can kill, and a motivated crowd can still overrun you.
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As for Dill's #2 point, that might work in America with police, but I don't think Nigeria's military is equipped for such things.
Most photos I can find of them they don't even have any sort of individual body armor. They aren't a NATO country, so they are using probably Soviet and Russian AKs, with Russian ammunition. Not sure Russia's pumping out too many less-than-lethal rounds, or have them in their surplus when you look at the Russian tactic of dealing with hostage takers.
I bet you if you went around polling folk in Nigeria, they wouldn't know about rubber bullets. It's not like in the US where we all know if we riot, throw shit at police, burn cars, and loot stores, it's just going to be a couple tear gas grenades and some occasional bean bag or rubber rounds.
Honestly, we seem to be a minority these days with no military on the streets. It's actually quite funny how people complain about how militarized the police in the US are (they admittedly are a bit), while ignoring that a huge portion of the world is policed by military, and Europe has full on assault rifle and sub machine gun carrying tactical guys patrolling their streets.
We're a bit spoiled here, but in a good way. It's why this country is pretty great, all things considered.
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As for Dill's #2 point, that might work in America with police, but I don't think Nigeria's military is equipped for such things.
Most photos I can find of them they don't even have any sort of individual body armor. They aren't a NATO country, so they are using probably Soviet and Russian AKs, with Russian ammunition. Not sure Russia's pumping out too many less-than-lethal rounds, or have them in their surplus when you look at the Russian tactic of dealing with hostage takers.
I bet you if you went around polling folk in Nigeria, they wouldn't know about rubber bullets. It's not like in the US where we all know if we riot, throw shit at police, burn cars, and loot stores, it's just going to be a couple tear gas grenades and some occasional bean bag or rubber rounds.
Honestly, we seem to be a minority these days with no military on the streets. It's actually quite funny how people complain about how militarized the police in the US are (they admittedly are a bit), while ignoring that a huge portion of the world is policed by military, and Europe has full on assault rifle and sub machine gun carrying tactical guys patrolling their streets.
We're a bit spoiled here, but in a good way. It's why this country is pretty great, all things considered.
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