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It's story time. | |
The Dallas sniper fire shootings that occurred on July 7, 2016 really had me on | |
the edge of my seat. I began watching the live broadcast around 8:30pm. | |
When I began watching, the shooting was still a very active situation. The news | |
reporter was crouched down behind a car with a couple of police officers. All | |
I could think at this time was when will the heavy armored vehicles arrive from | |
the police state. | |
Within the next few hours, they arrive and you can see them on the live | |
broadcast. Insurgents with gunner positions on top were deployed to the area. | |
For those who are unfamiliar, an insurgent is a class of armored vehicle. | |
By 10:30pm, I was scared in my own apartment. All it would have taken for the | |
government to enforce martial law and detain everyone to their homes like they | |
did in Boston, was for the snipers to escape into the city away from Downtown | |
Dallas. Police already had the FAA ground all air traffic over Dallas, a | |
precedent that has never happened during an active shooting situation before. | |
With no air traffic and everyone detained to their homes until further notice, | |
this would have been all the government would have needed to strip us of our 2nd | |
and 4th amendment rights. A manhunt would have ensued that would have been worse | |
than the Boston Marathon shooting. The city would be locked down. Americans | |
would have to defend themselves against the government with either guns or | |
knives, both of which would have proven unsuccessful in light of the police | |
using a remote controlled bomb to murder the suspect. | |
It was at this point that all of this was going through my head at 10:30pm at | |
night. I called my parents to tell them that I was safe, but they weren't even | |
aware of the situation going on in Dallas. It was around this time that Facebook | |
also setup a safety check page for those in Dallas where I marked myself safe | |
there too. I fell asleep in my chair watching the live broadcast that night, not | |
knowing what would happen next. | |
This is real. What happened in Dallas on July 7th is a chilling effect. They did | |
not need to ground air traffic, it's never been needed before in the earlier | |
U.S. shootings. The next morning, after getting ready for work and heading out, | |
I finally stop at a red-light intersection and have a moment to grab some | |
thoughts. I do not believe that this is the end of what happened. Sure, the | |
situation is "fluid" during a shooting, but some of the facts are purposely | |
being skewed by police and media. Let me explain my reasoning a bit more. | |
What started in Downtown Dallas as a peaceful protest/rally, ended with sniper | |
fire. The protest was 100% peaceful start to finish. It is not unreasonable to | |
think then, that the government forced the hand, by realizing that no one was | |
aggressive during the protest, so last minute before everyone was dispersed, | |
they opened fire on their own to start this huge event. Police performing crowd | |
control were already in place during the rally. How did they miss the snipers | |
in place at the rally? Donald Trump was in Dallas only weeks before, and there | |
was no sniper fire then, nothing tragic happened, despite the huge number of | |
individuals who strongly dislike Trump, want him dead, and have even tried to | |
assassinate him already (Google it). How can the police handle a big situation | |
such as Trump but not a simple rally/protest? How is it that nothing happened | |
DURING or before the rally but only AFTER it was over? | |
Cheers all. I hope I've been informative or at least have given you something | |
to think about. America dodged a bullet so-to-speak simply by those snipers in | |
Downtown Dallas not escaping into the city. |
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