• maria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    im not an american, but isnt there a thing called gun safety? where u put ur finger off the trigger when nobody evil is around?

    idunno tho, only heard about it in a video about resident evil or something.

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      I’m not either but yeah, it’s called “trigger discipline”

      As stated in the meme, though, a member of the IOF would be trained to see children as dangerous military targets to shoot on sight.

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        hmm… how would a child be a dangerous military target? is the thinking maybe:

        the enemies might put children there so that the place doesnt get attacked, so we specifically train our soldiers to shoot children so that that doesnt work anymore

        ? otherwise im having difficulties imagining any way how thos would sorta make strategic sense.

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          19 hours ago

          They aren’t. It’s gallows humor about how the IOF keep murdering children with impunity and never admitting wrongdoing.

          It doesn’t make strategic sense, it’s a horrific war crime, and most other nations would be in uproar if their military did it ONCE.

          For the IOF, though, child murder is just another inconsequential part of the routine slaughter they commit every day.

        • Yeah, the US isn’t the only place with gun users and enthusiasts. It’s just the place with the biggest problem of people thinking they need guns and people refusing to regulate guns. So a bunch of extra people end up with guns, but I’m sure many of those people don’t know what trigger discipline is, anyway.