Four armed veterans, including a decorated Marine, were shocked to find themselves tactically outmaneuvered by Antifa in Portland:
In
hindsight it was stupid on our part, I had no idea that they were like that. If
it had been a full-blown riot we would not have gone. Bottom line, man, if you
had ever given me a scenario like this and said hey, you’re sober, and you have
a gun, and somebody is hitting you with a bat and throwing rocks at you that
could kill you or put you in a coma, you try to get away but they cut you off
with a convoy of vehicles and the assault starts again. They impede your
movement and beat you with bats…
Would you shoot?
I’d be like, yeah what fucking
planet are you from?
But in all the training that I’ve
been through my life, I’ve never been in one where in the first five seconds of
the scenario you’re blinded with a strobe light and sprayed with pepper spray….
That changes everything. They were throwing these rocks from 15 feet back in
the crowd, you couldn’t see who the fuck through it, etc. things like that….
It’s just a good talking point for guys that carry concealed, but you need to
think through all these different scenarios.
It
got way worse after that video ended, they chased us for 11 city blocks. They
had a convoy of about 25 vehicles that cut us off at the next intersection,
They had scouts on the corner with radios, they had a drone following us, they
had a bull horn calling us Nazis, and the crowd was following a red strobe
light that was up in the air on a stick, so they would announce Nazis and then
people would follow the red strobe light, That video is just the beginning,
I’ve got a fucking fractured hand from a baton, every one of us has black and
blue bruises up and down their legs and back, I had a guy spit in my face from
6 inches away, call me a pussy and a coward for not doing anything about it, and
then tell me that he was going to find where I live, rape my mother, rape my
children in front of me and then kill me.
First, the operational level of war is about logistics, not tactics.
Second, the enemy always gets a vote. Neither the Boomers confident in their
tacticool AR-15 rifles nor the self-reliant GenXers with their concealed 5-shot
.357 revolvers have any idea what they're actually likely to find themselves up
against.
Note that these Patriots
were sufficiently experienced to run rather than fight when they found
themselves facing more than they could handle. Note as well that the police
believe themselves to be in over their heads.