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Real Life super heroes
Topic Started: Jan 9 2011, 11:35 AM (337 Views)
Gauntlet101010
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/r...111314-082.html

So, Kick Ass finally has company. I guess some people ARE trying the super hero thing out for real.
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Mad Mags

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Are you fucking kidding me?

Just wait until one of them is actually gunned down.

Its great if they want to play sheepdog, but do it responsibly and don't make a show of it. These guys are living in a fantasy, and its going to end with at least one of them being seriously injured or killed. I can even see one of them botching a situation someday, preventing the cops from doing their job.

Get a CCW license, stop dressing like a moron, and just be ready to act if the situation calls for it.
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Gauntlet101010
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Didn't yuo once advocate making a militia to solve some crime problems? How is this much different than that?
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Mad Mags

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No, not for petty crimes. The role of the organized militia is to stand guard for and react to foreign and domestic threats, and to aid authorities as part of the Second Amendment. Militias are not a daily police force.

Furthermore, in practice militias aren't supposed to be grabbing for attention like these assholes are. We don't wear spandex and rubber and expect to solve crime using tazers and nets like some 1960s Batman episode. We operate as a last resort on the front lines. If we mobilize, its because of a major situation that calls for quick, deadly paramilitary action, and that the National Guard and state and local police need help. Think terrorist attack.

No one in a real, organized militia has any interest in playing policeman. The professional cop gets compensated for his job, whereas we don't. We have mouths to feed (namely our own), and playing cop only gets in the professionals' way, increases our daily risk many times fold, and rewards us with nothing but grief.
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Byron
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Honestly, I'd expected something like this to happen in Canada rather than America; our justice system is viewed as 'soft on crime' by a lot of Canadians, and I've often expected this kind of vigilantie action to occur up here.
> I spend quite a bit of time here nowadays. Sorry for any inconvenience...
> I also have a blog now!
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