re: #165 darthstar

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I’m sorry but I must say that would be unwise. The wingnuts might well have responded to that by opening fire on the BLM men doing the culling. While the BLM perhaps should not have backed off when it did, to have started killing the cattle (likely with guns) while armed wingnuts were massed against other government personnel would have likely set off a bloodbath.

To fuse two themes together, fighting out in the open as was done during the Revolution is now impossible. Modern firepower, even bolt action rifles, is simply too deadly to stand in front of. If you want to put paid to the wingnuts, you have to catch them by surprise. (Yes you could just sic helicopter gunships on them, but the PR blowback from doing that would be cataclysmic).