Is that because Fox News says so?

Living in Louisiana, I can say that hurricanes Rita (another important one as it came immediately after) and Katrina, while devastating, were nothing compared to the element of people.

This part is important because you will never find it in the news, only from those of us who lived here. The National Guard took over relief services and Black Water was hired to guard the governmental buildings. Many of the Black Water guys were using Grizzly APCs armed with M2 Brownings and there were even more that were using ammunition that would be considered illegal - specialized anti-personnel rounds that were essentially hollowed and filled with mercury then coated with paraffin wax. I don't know the technical details, just what I was shown at a diner when they were trying to show their muscle.

But it just goes to show that people are more dangerous than anything else in the world. Can't even honor our dead anymore with the hostility that seethes in these forums. I regret making the topic just because it's done nothing but breed more bullshit when the entire point of it was to remind everyone that one of our own died a year ago, today.

yea its working out great for Syria atm

Huh i was just making fun of this ridiculous rhetoric that a well armed populace is good for anything. Unless ofc you find prestige in having the worst murder rate in the world or enjoy that part of your public education is a good chance of getting blown away by emos. I find particular lolworthy the concept that legal guns is a good counter to illegal ones. Damn people are stupid as hell in places.

Dont you worry about Syria though, Russia has this.