Hit a White rag?.......
Posted on 04/25/2008 1:26:21 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
TUCSON - Some surprising news came from the United States Border Patrol.
The Patrol has purchased 1,000 guns that fire non-lethal paintball or pepper pellets. The goal of a target practice session was to hit the white rag at the end of a hall with paintballs. Border Patrol agents may soon use paintballs to defend themselves against smugglers along the border due to an increase in violence.
Surveillance video from an incident last year in El Paso shows a Border Patrol agent retreating after people pelt him with rocks. Some could argue the same about being hit by a paintball without protective gear, where a projectile from a paintball gun leaves a small welt on the flesh.
Small welt or not, human rights activists say it is a bad idea, even for a line of defense.
Here, ICE agents! Defend against automatic weapons fire with paint!
And of course, the whiny "human rights activists" have to cry that it's inhumane.
How about pea-shooters, or maybe just rocks?
Yeah, that’ll work.
Hit a White rag?.......
at what point do we grow some real balls and use real ammo to defend our people and land.......good grief.....why don’t we give them water guns or just point thier fingers and say bang bang i got you.....
I could show ‘em how to make spitball shooters from Bic pens, and Bic pens are really cheap...
This is utter crap, the border jumpers are tje less desirables from Mexico that their government is forcing out,
criminals, gangmembers, pedophiles ect.
They are not stupid, they will realize that the borderagents have toy guns and no match for smuggled weapons.
Talk about stuck on stupid.
Oh great!....now we’ll have a bunch of painted illegals running around in circles. It should be permanent dye so we can find them and kick their asses out!
No, hit Pots and Pans with Wooden Spoons and yell, “Shoo”.
This is the dumbest idea I’ve heard all month.
By the way, how do paintball guns measure up to semi-automatic rifles?...Our government is full of PC idiots!
“This is wrong on so many levels.”
Exactly what I was thinking. We can no longer defend ourselves? Our LEO’s can NO LONGER defend themselves against foreign CRIMINAL invaders? People, this is way out of hand.
“Border Patrol agents may soon use paintballs to defend themselves against smugglers along the border due to an increase in violence.”
SHOOT THEM! With LEAD! This is insane.
BTW, Lars Larson has been talking about an illegal alien inmate in Oregon getting kidney dialysis from US. More info on that below. The irony is I understand the youngest son of Ramos, the border agent, is in the hospital with meningitis. Monica Ramos was first told they wouldn’t admit without insurance, then told she needed to make a $1000.00 deposit.
We’re living in an insane asylum!
Lars Larson audio: Aliens and Oregon health care
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 Lars Audio
http://www.larslarson.com/ (Click on NW Reports)
The email I got on Ramos son:
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Nacho’s son has been hospitalized. He was almost NOT admitted due to the fact that Monica, a hero and American citizen does not have health insurance!! (Many Americans today are not able to afford the benefit of health coverage!) Monica was furious and asked “How do you admit the illegals (without insurance or ID!!!)? The hospital then allowed their son to be admitted, but only with a $1000 deposit! (Without Nacho’s income, this family does NOT have money!!!)
Crime May Not Pay, But....
“........ ask this illegal incarcerated here in Oregon on sex crimes, who requires $25,000 a month in kidney dialysis. The state of Oregon has graciously stepped up to pick up the tab for this, (for the duration of his very long sentence), through our statewide insurance program. It’s Oregon’s own “No illegal alien left behind” program. What a country, it just gives you goosebumps when you pay your taxes! So, just regard the prison system as the final safety net and if the stuff really hits the fan we can always rob a candy store and check in for three squares and a cot, with free medical and dental care to boot!”
http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm
They (illegal aliens, smugglers, etc.) are getting violent, so we'll nail 'em with paintballs? What friggin' idiot came up with this looney idea?
“Oh great!....now we’ll have a bunch of painted illegals running around in circles. It should be permanent dye so we can find them and kick their asses out!”
Now, that would make sense! I’m sure the ACLU would scream ‘Paintball profiling!’ or some such BS.
Only the US government could come up with shit like this. They are bound and determined to get more of our border agents killed. Some of the folks at ICE, starting at the top, need to be fired.
“Stop I say, or you’ll get hit with pepper and a smattering of garlic, onion, and tarragon...”
And yet, it’s TOO violent for the “human rights activists”!!!
They’d probably object if our Border agents shot smugglers and illegals with Nerf projectiles.
The world has gone topsy turvy.
I think that’s supposed to be a, “f” not an “r”
Why not M4/203s with the 203s loaded with less-than lethal? Those beanbag rounds pack a punch.
What a great idea, next these morons could arm our soldiers in Iraq with potato guns and sling-shots so we won’t hurt IQ.
¡Bueno! Me pegaste con pintura, y me duele mucho. Ahora voy a volver a Méjico. Te prometo, ¡nunca más cruzaré tu frontera! ¡Adiós!
A straw, a straight pin, and a little scotch tape and I can make a wicked blow dart. It will strike fear into all those illegal border crossers, I'm sure.
Better than that would be 'pistols' whittled from pine. Each agent could whittle his or her own. Point the 'pistol' and shout "BANG."
Can anyone advise whether a paintball marker gun is a good way to deter deer? They make themselves at home in the yard, and destroy expensive landscaping.
While tasty, and easy to shoot, I don’t want to go to prison for poaching.
But I’d also like to know the most potent and powerful paint-ball gun there is, so I could send a real message through that deerskin armor they wear.
Would a rib shot be most effective? (I considered less-than lethal rubber shotgun slugs, but they are expensive, and the noise would alarm the neighbors.)
Who we really should shoot with real guns will be withheld.
Why not water pistols? Or maybe have the agents try to reason with the scum to please go back?
We’d have been hell in shop class together, huh?
I missed that episode. Lemme guess: Dwight goes absolutely paintball postal and wails on female co-workers and Michael.
Am I close?
And of course, the whiny "human rights activists" have to cry that it's inhumane.
Until the Secret Service begins guarding the POTUS, cabinet members and members of congress with paintball guns, this remains UNACCEPTABLE.
How in hades do we put up with these attacks on our agents?
I wouldn’t know about the deer. Not my city-dwelling expertise—although I get ‘em in my yard from time to time.
I’m sure some other FReepers know.
I like the idea! A 10 gauge shotgun. A paintball, followed by a hand full of buckshot should work well. You can get a lot of stuff into a 10 gauge shell.
What next? Squirt guns?
I think it was when Dwight gave Michael the paintballs and 2 free lessons for a Christmas present. They added a clip of him shooting at a target and yelling out “take that Saddam!”
The paintball guns are a slight improvement over what we had as kids when we’d play army:
(pointing gun made out of fingers) “I shot you...you’re dead!”
“Did not”
“Did Too”
“Nah uh”
“Uh huh”
“Did So”
“No you didn’t, I shot you first”
“Did not”
“Did Too”
...etc....
Shooting drug dealers with paint balls is humiliating..
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Johnny Sutton will be all over the first BP agent that puts out an illegal’s eye with one of those things.
Personally, I’d make them sit in the Comfy Chair.
"This is the US Border Patrol! Do not come any closer or you may receive a small welt! Or two!"
Intersting thing happens to paint balls when you freeze them.....
tsk tsk tsk...why carry even those heavy, nasty ol’ paintball guns? Just snap them on the @ss with a towel as they cross our border! /s
While I'm not hispanic, I've always enjoyed extremely spicy foods. During OC certification, I won't say that I enjoyed being sprayed, but I seemed to fare much better than others. Likewise, I was the guy in the Army that did pretty well in the CS chamber. It would irritate my eyes a little, and after a while my sinuses and throat would lock up, but I could hang out for a while unmasked, and while others were stumbling over each other to get out, I could exit at a casual pace. I know they're entirely different chemicals and I'm not attributing my resistance to CS to my spicy diet...but in the case of OC pepper spray, I'm of the decided opinion that there is a relationship.
Not a WET towel, you don’t mean!
There’s a global warming-caused WATER SHORTAGE going on now, don’t you know?
“Interesting thing happens to paint balls when you freeze them.....”
The pepper balls being talked about in this story are much, much harder than regular paintballs (at least the ones I’ve seen were that way). I think the idea may be to cause a good deal of pain and discomfort from the impact, to go along with the pepper. I’ve never been hit with one, but I have shot them and watched the impact on a cinder block fence. I think you could actually take someone down if you bounced a few off their noggin.
I wouldn’t use a paintball marker gun because #1 it is evidence that can be used against you. A neighbor could testify that the deer ran from your yard with paint splatters on them and that you are abusing them.
My suggestion would be to use a slingshot and marbles or a pump action pellet gun.
Vicious You hit me with a flower You do it every hour Ohh, baby youre so vicious
Bush's border patrol in action
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