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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
If I knew who that person on the street was. Or thought I knew who he was. If I were a physician. Or a policeman off duty.
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You would drive your mini-van full of children in to the middle of a gun fight if you thought you might have seen someone you knew?
Physicians and policemen tend to operate under the same principles: 1) You save the ones you can. 2) You do what you can to keep the situation from getting worse.
Putting yourself and your kids in front of a 30mm chain gun would seem to violate both of those principles.
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Is it really that hard to believe that someone might want to help unarmed civilians who have been injured? It's kind of sad that we're so jaded as a society that people can't even give assistance to dying photographers in the middle of the street without having their motives questioned. It's pathetic even.
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Dude. These "unarmed civilians" weren't accidentally hit by a car in Mayberry, RFD. They were (justifiably) shot to shit by an American gunship in the midst of a larger battle.
Is it really that hard to believe that most rational people would take note of their situation/surroundings and say to themselves "Ok, so we've got US ground forces engaged in a big ass fight the next block over and these guys just got hit by a US attach helicopter....maybe they got shot for a reason. Either way, its not worth my kids lives to find out".
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Originally Posted by dippin
Besides, where the hell did either of you get the idea that whatever going on was limited to that exact position and as such easily avoidable?
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I'm fairly certain the guy could have avoided pulling over, stopping, exiting his vehicle, etc...Just going out on a limb here.