Hopefully these "protestors" stick to just harmlessly blocking traffic. What are these people's major malfunctions? What do they feel gives them the right and what could they possibly be accomplishing with this nonsense?

the Twin Cities is super liberal and have catered to and enabled these people who believe they are "victims of the system" and are entitled to do whatever they want.  The Minneapolis Mayor and her lesbian (not that there is anything wrong with that) Police Chief have ordered the LEOs to stand down and let them run free.  These are the same people that attacked Trump supports a week or so ago with no repercussions.  Also the same people that have been allowed to shutdown I94, a major traffic artery, multiple times during morning rush hour traffic, shutdown the airport on Dec 24, locked down the Mall of America on black friday and a number of other "protests" designed to disrupt other larger events around the Cities.  And these are also the same group of ingrates that started the whole "pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon" chant last year at the state fair. 

it will only get worse here, add to that the largest Somali population and terrorist recruiting location in the nation and things should be very interesting for us in the coming months.  I got to get the hell out of MN.

I would say come to Texas, but who am I kidding? Do your gun rights a favour and go to Arizona. Between gun rights and some of the safest patient/staff ratios in the United States, Arizona must be heaven on earth- the stuff that legends are made of  .

I've thought about TX, we have an office in Austin that i could easily move to, but they're almost as far down the liberal loony hole as Minneapolis/St. Paul is.  Don't think i could do AZ, off-roading and camping would be awesome down there but damn it's hot.  I was thinking more like WY or Idaho.

I've thought about TX, we have an office in Austin that i could easily move to, but they're almost as far down the liberal loony hole as Minneapolis/St. Paul is.  Don't think i could do AZ, off-roading and camping would be awesome down there but damn it's hot.

You go up in elevation and the temperature drops quite a bit.  Up on the rim they get snow (a lot of it!).

See? This land, it is fertile.

Wait, whaaaaaa?

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My Firefly reference? Or the fact that Arizona is the secret favourite main squeeze out of Texas's stable of 48 other b____es? 

Damn, how'd I miss the Firefly reference, now I feel a binge watching episode coming on.

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I'd pick on you for that, but it took me almost 15 years to watch it. Then again I was very young in 2002. I wouldn't have understood the show anyways at that point  .

I've read that when faced with attack, Marines will run toward the muzzle flashes of their enemy.  These are tactics I have applied, and used, in my day to day job.

Marines work in teams, wear body armor, and carry a host of offensive weapon systems.  None of which are common to your average civilian.

...then you use whatever you have to make things right.

Including one's brain, discretion being the better part of valor.  1*

Agreed.  But sometimes, especially in my line of work, running isn't always an option and facing your enemies head on may be your only chance for survival.

Fine, but that has a damned high chance of getting you killed.  This line of work which you so frequently mention, whatever it is, I am betting you are the only one here who is in it.

Oy! A security guard with delusions of grandeur.

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My apologies, I had no intention of getting this thread off track.  I'm just very impassioned when it comes to tactics and applying them in the field.

My apologies, I had no intention of getting this thread off track.  I'm just very impassioned when it comes to tactics and applying them in the field.

No reason to apologise, I just wanted to keep it on the topic of strategy and for no personal insults to be flung. I didn't see you throw any insults.