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And they won't be.

Back in the day of bolt actions and single aimed shots? Yeah. Training matters a lot.

In the era of semi automatic rifles with high capacity magazines? Just aim at a crowd and squeeze a few times and you'll get a couple kids.

Let's break down the Call of Duty wank fantasy, shall we?

It’s the strategic operation planning, explosives training, understanding of communications, battle logistics and OPSEC training that makes them a possible threat to the government.

• Strategic Operation planning: Ah, yes. Because the average grunt is coordinating combined arms efforts. Let's not forget that probably the most effective planned (alleged) murder of the past few decades was allegedly done by a rich comp sci kid
• Explosives training: Oh, okay. So they are going to be given a backpack full of C4?
• Communications: See above regarding how every grunt is Jack motha fugging O'Neill himself.
• Logistics: Ah, so those unhoused people are going to have the best supply chain to ever exist?
• OPSEC: Dude... it has been a decades long struggle to explain to the military why fitbits and cell phones aren't good things to carry around

Again. Maybe we should discuss reality and not just thank Rambo for his service before he draws first blood for the fifteenth time?

The military aspect of this doesn't make much of a safety difference because of all the other horrifically stupid decisions this country has made over the past century or so. What matters are that people are losing their homes. And maybe, just maybe, we should think about why one class of people get basically UBI but the rest of the country doesn't.

If I were them, I’d be worried about targeted violence against me and my party more than random spree killings.

They very much are. The endless "You shouldn't be able to track my jet" was very much about making it harder to plan a blue shell than it was about caring about getting clowned on for hating the environment. I honestly suspect THAT is the big reason that musk wanted to be a government official and destroy things. Now he can get a secret service detail (or at least pretend his hired thugs are secret service) for life.

You’re right, I don’t care about the plight of veterans any more than the plight of anyone else. If anything, I care slightly less because of their culpability in our military misadventures and the trail of death and destruction we’ve left in our wake. That said, they should be taken care of. Like anyone else should be taken care of.

That is more or less where I come down. I do not at all think that we should shake people's hands and thank them for their service in shooting a brown kid and destroying a mosque... or sitting in an office chair while their coworkers did that for them. I don't like salmon THAT much.

But the US military is more or less proof that socialism and planned economies work. And we have done wonders implementing aspects of UBI for them. But the moment they put down the gun/wrench/pen? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Like... fuck the VA. You shouldn't have to have been told to look the other way from sexual assault of a fellow soldier to get medical and psychiatric treatment.

But deleting the VA without providing anything better? That is the same as destroying the orgs that apparently helped lower income households not freeze to death in the winter and is just about suffering for suffering's sake.

And, of course, the call of duty generation just fantasize about how everyone is soap mcprice and is going to do a rambo because they don't ACTUALLY understand how militaries or modern warfare works and refuse to acknowledge just how dangerous the guns on store shelves actually are.