"Stefan Viljoen" <pov### [at] polardcom> wrote in message
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> A civilian might have been of more use, not subject to military discipline
> or trained to wait for orders - he'd have had to use his own judgement,
> which is often VERY badly regarded in most armies. You do what you are
> told. If you are not told to do something, you don't do it.

Well, maybe armies have some common sense after all. If firing willy-nilly
is not a good idea for an army, nor is it for civilians, who will have even
less training, experience and discipline. And if civilians are not supposed
to open fire either, what's the point of arming them?

> Or they had to wait until they could get hold of somebody with a LOADED
> weapon, ready to fire. And then that person too, if properly trained,
would
> have first made an assessment and not just blindly started firing back,
> which can cause just as much harm.

Exactly.

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