"Trump Cabinet: I’m a Marine. I can’t get one part of the Pete Hegseth Hearing Out of My Head.
It’s time to prepare for the worst-case scenario under Trump."
"An order by Trump to deploy the military and have it open fire on protesters would be catastrophic in a way few Americans who haven’t served in uniform realize. Unlike the National Guard at Kent State, today’s military is significantly more lethal. In 1970 the Ohio National Guard killed four protesters and wounded nine at Kent State University, firing semiautomatic M1 Garand rifles, which held an eight-round magazine and could fire 40 to 50 rounds a minute.* As one National Guard member there that day recalled: 'I distinctly heard one shot fired; then all hell broke loose when 28 men fired a total of 67 shots over a period of 13 seconds.'
A modern military squad operates with roughly nine M16s loaded with 30-round magazines and three squad automatic weapons that each contain 200-round belts of ammunition. If today the same number of soldiers were firing for 13 seconds, as they did at Kent State, they could easily unleash several hundred rounds. Additionally, contemporary crowd-control tactics often result in 'kettling,' in which protesters are pushed into densely confined areas, where individual bullets are likely to penetrate multiple people before stopping."
This has nearly happened before."
~ Timothy Soseki Kudo
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