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allan said:
I spent three years in a combat zone. I returned home after a medical discharge and have been a model citizen since. I have friends that are former SOF operators, including Rangers, SEALs and Special Forces. If we, as a group, decided we were going on a tear, we’d be a nightmare for your average metro police department.

We wouldn’t. You know why? We took an oath to defend this country and we respect America too much to even contemplate such acts.
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ummm…that statement is a little scary. you won’t go on a murderous rampage because you ‘respect ” america too much? of all the reasons not to go ona murderousrampage, or “tear” or whatever “tear” means to you, respect for america is the least comforting or compeling reason I can think of. First because a country can change for good and bad, and levels of respect may change among people, based on hwo they are treated. people promise to love honor and respect their spouses forever, and that doesn’t work out,a nd while one may always love their country, they may not always respect it or its actions.

second, from a moral point of view, there are far more assuring and compelling reasons not to go ona “tear”…like…it’s always wrong to kill others not in war? like, religious moorings? like, love they neighbor as they self. or hell, i don’t know…it’s just the right thing to do, regardless of how you feel about your particulr country ant that aprticular point in time…….but luckily, all this violent capacity is held in check by “respect”.

i know im probably not getting to what you meant. but it is worrisome. there’s a lot of male energy coming back and not enough cop jobs to absorb them all…