Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are.

"Geez, they're not snipers! They're just using the sniper scope as a telescope! They're not for use as actual snipers! We just gotta use them to look at the evil protestors!""

Just a matter of time before we have another Kent State.

It feels like these protests are going to shape how the governments of the world will respond to mass unrest in the future.

Or in other words - those in charge want the common person to be disempowered, to frame a peaceful protest as an act of terrorism so they can be more aggressive in future.

Hopefully no one on either side does anything stupid.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming

We're finally on our own

This summer I hear the drumming

Four dead in Ohio

Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down

Should have been gone long ago

What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground

How can you run when you know?

the land of the free

This seems so incredibly ill-advised. If students become martyred by trigger-happy snipers, these protests will boil over into open violence. Imagine thousands of videos flooding social media in an instant showing student corpses. I fear that gasoline has been poured and matches are being lit everywhere.

What is it with Ohio and murdering college protesters? (See: Kent State)

We should treat them like snipers? ie. We should rush them and neutralise the threat they pose?

I mean, obviously question: how does one treat them as if they are?

(Make them say the quiet part out loud)

Love how the narrative went from “nah those can’t be snipers definitely spotters” to “snipers are commonplace at big events!” once it was confirmed. Also the fact that only msn and snopes have published anything about this (or is that just a search indexing problem?).

I think those are to protect from psychos that want to kill the protesters.

Think about it, it would be idiotic for any crowd control “measures” and doesn’t make any sense otherwise.

Can't wait for a headline about them accidentally shooting an innocent person and then admin goes on the defensive, claiming that the snipers were only doing their job. That, or hush the grieving family by either paying them to shut up or flat out erase them by buying off the police.

Is that bitch wearing a mask to hide their identity?

So I have a question I sort of posted in there too but figure I’ll bring the conversation over here (in a more respectful way)

These are called spotters/marksman and they have them at football games, the Olympics, presumably political events, etc. to handle the threat of suicide bombers and other mass-population terrorist threats

How should we handle these threats without police intervention/snipers to quickly take out a bomber?

Looking for civil discourse if at all possible, but I also understand this is a high stakes discussion and directly affects some more than others

Edit: Asks a legitimate question, without ulterior motives, literally just trying to steer the conversation to a productive, constructive discussion: is bombarded with bad faith arguments, downvotes, accused of being down right disingenuous, and minimal attempts (1 as of this edit) to actually address the conversation. Psychotic experience this was.

They're just business men with business plans. They're totally not cops.

Too many assholes in this country think they are the American Sniper.

Administration speechcraft level 100

Civil war speedrun any%

Is there a better source than a screenshot of a tweet?

The US saying how free it is compares to a small guy telling you how much of an alpha male he is. Unreliable narration

Why aren’t they going to where the lawmakers are to protest? /s

https://youtu.be/l1PrUU2S_iw?si=ueID1BDedP2OOZvK

Those don't look like rifles from this angle. They appear to be monoculars.

So we need to get on the roof and detain the snipers.

I put this in the other thread but they have these guys out for EVERY football game. I believe its their standard practice for crowded events. Have your own options, but its not like this is a unique situation. Like I see people talking about trigger happy snipers and shooting kids but that just isn't something that had happend dispite being frequently deployed.

An eagle never misses