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   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: nospam@buggeroff.com   
      
   "Dechucka"  wrote in message   
   news:s6WdnetcCOxDzfvMnZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@westnet.com.au...   
   >   
   > "Spartan613"  wrote in message   
   >>> I'm sure as you supposedly trundle around Germany doing exercises you   
   >>> were not worried about the civilian with a .22.   
   >>   
   >> Seeing as the training area (Soltau-Luneburg) encompassed several   
   >> villages and hunting reserves, civilians with firearms of all calibres   
   >> were a genuine concern.   
   >>   
   >> Especially as some of the locals were opposed to the "British occupation"   
   >> of their land.   
   >   
   > so you would of taken precautions   
      
   Yes. Like the way women take the pill as a precaution against unwanted   
   pregnancy.   
      
   >>   
   >>> Maybe you took precautions when exiting the tank not against civilians   
   >>> with .22s   
   >>   
   >> Those were real. As were the precautions taken when dismounted or   
   >> transiting areas accessible to the locals.   
   >   
   > exactly, you took them and so would the Abrams tank crews   
      
   Precautions aren't 100% effective.   
      
   Anyone with real-world experience would know that.   
      
   >>   
   >>> but opposition infantry with slightly more potent weaponry   
   >>   
   >> Blanks and lasers? Not such a REAL worry as civilians with hunting   
   >> rifles.   
   >   
   > Idiot   
      
   Your SOP response when the conversation moves beyond your technical   
   comprehension.   
      
   >>   
   >> Germans have a healthy gun culture, not nearly as polluted with Leftard   
   >> hoplophobia as Australia's, so many of them were pretty fair shots.   
   >   
   > so you took precautions.   
      
   Like the way you take precautions from getting AIDS. Are you sure spitting   
   is 100% effective?   
      
   > Thanks for confirming the utter stupidity of your argument in relation to   
   > GI-O and his .22   
      
   Thanks for confirming you're a clueless twonk who knows FUCK-ALL.   
      
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   want merely because you think it would be good for him".   
      
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