Thursday, February 20, 2014

"Ukraine Protesters Arm Themselves With Homemade Weapons"

From February 20, 2014 NBC News:
An anti-government protester shoots an improvised weapon during clashes with riot police in Independence Square in Kiev on Thursday. 
Great picture: it looks like a homemade Claymore.  It makes you wonder what the situation would be like if the protesters were as well armed as your average Californian.

4 comments:

  1. Looks like a pyrotechnic to me. But maybe they put something in it. Still, I don't think that looks like it's much harm to anyone.

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  2. It's a bundle of fireworks taped together and nailed to a board. It'll throw sparks, flame and smoke but no projectiles unless they modify it.
    Use what you have when the time comes, I guess.

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  3. You don't need to wonder: we already had exactly same protesters in California. It was called "The Occupy Movement". They also wanted European style welfare state for everyone, for added similarities.

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  4. Things seem to have called down some, but not until after the protesters took some riot police prisoner.

    Think about that a moment. Not very well armed "protesters" took armed cops prisoner, in a place where the police are much more militarized than here. That night, 67 people were killed, not all of them on the poorly-armed side.

    They stood on the brink of the abyss, looking over the side long enough to get scorched, before pulling back. Apparently, they haven't backed off very far.

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