Warning: This video is graphic for weak of stomach folks.
I’m an analyst. Permit me some free-form analysis, very early, in which the details are not exactly nailed down.
First, I take this to be a shot from a long gun. Pistol rounds don’t cause that much damage. It could be from an AK pattern rifle, but I doubt it. I recall a Navy Corpsman in my son’s Battalion who told me his story (confirmed by others in the Battalion) where he took a 7.62×39 round to the thigh, it ricocheted up his thigh and exited near his buttocks. Clean entry wound, clean exit wound. He then tended to other wounded in the gun battle before attending his own wound. 7.62×39 rounds don’t explode like this upon impact. It’s likely to be a 5.56×45 round. This is what a little 5.56mm pill going 3000 FPS does. He now has half an arm. He will never have a complete arm again. His bicep is now non-existent and his elbow likely shattered. In fact, it was probably a glancing shot, not well aimed.
Second, I don’t know anything about the details, but apparently the shooter (who may have been defending himself) hasn’t been identified. Someone (perhaps their Marxist professors) has convinced the black bloc and BLM that after buying hundreds of millions of guns and trillions of rounds of ammunition, Americans will sit idle and be overrun. This is dangerous teaching. It will get people killed.
Third, this was bound to happen. It only escalates from here. The sides don’t sit back, ponder what’s happened, and then suddenly decide that this might have been a misadventure and badly conceived project. Anger builds. Memories are made. This all redounds to increasing levels of violence. Once this spigot has been opened, it’s extremely difficult to close it.
Fourth, I interviewed and cataloged the experiences of my son’s squad (and mostly his fire team) when they returned from Iraq over several days. This is exactly how it went down. Shots fired. No one knows who did it or where it came from, car tags were removed, shooters were wearing hoods, and shooters were rarely identified unless killed.
It’s not like in Afghanistan where men wearing pajamas sit in the hills for three days and engaged long distance fire in a dedicated and disciplined manner. This is urban / suburban warfare. The darkness rules. There aren’t enough police to stop the violence, much less conduct formal investigations. There were some protracted gun battles in which my son engaged, but the bulk of the fighting was shoot from cover or concealment, move, maneuver, disappear to do it again later.
I’ll say it again. These reports are eerily similar to the ones I received from my son’s fire team. If this progresses, think in terms of Iraq × 100 (or worse). As always, this isn’t an encouragement to participate, merely for educational and analysis purposes. I am an analyst, and analysis you receive here is better than anything you’ll get from the CIA or DHS.
EDIT: Update via WiscoDave.
[I have just begun to include these posts in the category “War & Warfare,” previously opting to place them in “Politics.”]
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