Comments on: Border Patrol to Use Paintball Guns on Illegal Migrants

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Tue, 20 May 2008 05:37:46 +0000

[...] Occasionally, a reader’s comment is compelling enough to merit its own posting on The Border Report. Here’s one from Will about the Border Patrol’s plan to use paintball guns on aggressive migrants. [...]

By: Richard Hudson

Richard Hudson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:02:54 +0000

And, they outsourced it!
Isn’t there an American Paint Ball Gun manufacturing company?

By: Will

Will — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:45:47 +0000

A little taste…

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=whHJ7os2v6w

By: Will

Will — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:39:51 +0000

Here are some practical arguments as to why I disagree with the US government spending $3 million bucks on a terrible idea. First off, rule number one in any hunting situation, wait at least 15 minutes after the shot has been fired to move in on the prey, the reason is that a wounded animal has a surge of adrenaline that is not able to be duplicated in any other scenario except when their life is threatened. They are able to run faster, longer, and stronger, there are instances all the time when a hunter wound’s a deer, and the deer is able to run off for 20 miles in full speed, when the hunter finds the animal dead from the wound a week later the meat is rotten. Same thing applies here, you ever been shot with a paintball gun? They fooking hurt, and I’m sure these military grade weapons will pack an even greater punch then the standard paintball weapon. Shoot someone (especially an illegal) with one of these and that guy is gone, he is going to run faster, harder, stronger, and longer then those BP guys are used to.

Second argument, when you are the one pulling the trigger a complete opposite happens to you, instead of a rush of energy, you go through a rush somewhat near to hyperventilation. Even though the physical aspects of pulling a trigger are small (being a one finger motion, and I guess you could include the process of bringing the weapon to your shoulder) your body goes into a state of “freaking out”. You become overwhelmed almost, the Navy SEALs began to notice this, and they combat it with a rigorous process involving push-ups, sit-ups, and other calisthenics that you must perform PRIOR to qualifying on the firing range. This helps to overcome the post firing fatigue that happens to a soldier after firing a weapon. This is real, you don’t believe me, go track a deer or whatever they have down there in Tuscon, shoot him, and then try to run after him, you’ll feel winded.

Third, what if the guy just takes his shirt off?

I have to say a lot of this if not all of it is brought on b/c of Ramos and Campean, those guys fooked things up for their comrades, not for the fact that they shot the guy, but for the fact that they didn’t kill him. You learn to use or fire a weapon for deadly force, and for that reason only, not to wound. A lawyer told me once “anyone breaks into the house or you are in a situation where you have to use deadly force, you make sure you kill the other person…a dead body can’t talk.”

This thinking, this paintball idea is done by the same desk jockey that decided to blow $20 million bucks on the Virtual Fence, which was scrapped the other day, why? You scumbag’s up there in Washington either fix the problem or don’t, it really doesn’t bother me, but quit wasting our fooking MONEY!

By: ilegal

ilegal — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:11:29 +0000

…well, i say what i see, i mean, “ilegal” is not just a nickname i use write in this blog…

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:07:25 +0000

Ha! That’s what I love about my readers; you people fooking THINK!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:58:48 +0000

“Claiming that attacks against agents have increased to terrifying levels…”

When someone tosses a rock at a BP vehicle, and it bounces off the hood, I imagine that’s included in that list of attacks.

And while getting shot up with paint balls doesn’t appeal to me, it sure beats the alternative, a hollow-point bullet.

We’ll see how this works out, It’ll be interesting to watch.

By: ilegal

ilegal — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:06:16 +0000

burreros don’t throw rocks, they carry automatic weapons and they are always eager to shoot them, the border agents know that…paintball guns are a bad idea, almost suicidal.