1892 Homestead Strike and The Haymarket Affair too.
Happy rabbit holing.
It’s like the rich forgot. And while I really don’t want to see political violence I am sure that a country with more guns than people is not going to react well to a new gilded age.
Let me know how you come out. Happy digging rabbit. Happy digging.
Edit: One of the crazy things in that wiki article to me was it listed ~1,000,000 shots fired, and only about 34 dead.
That would mean if the average person shot 100 rounds, and they knew 300 other people in attendance, on average 1 of those 300 may have actually shot someone dead.
I liked the movie League of Extraordinary Gentle back in the day, but now I know what he meant when he quoted Americans as “fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target”
In combat a lot of shots are fired without actually trying to hit someone. It’s not missing on purpose, if the target is available you shoot it. But in order to maneuver it’s safest to keep them in hiding until you’re ready to go for the kill. So a lot of shots are fired trying to get that advantage. Of course in peer to peer combat both sides are trying to get that advantage and a ton of infantry training revolves around how exactly to do that. In combat with one trained force and one untrained force it’s almost always an easy win for the trained force because the untrained people don’t understand how the trained force managed to magically appear in their weakest spot while still shooting at them from the front.
In order to do that you spend bullets. Lots of bullets.
Welp, here’s another rabbit hole on the list. See yall later 👋😀
1892 Homestead Strike and The Haymarket Affair too.
Happy rabbit holing.
It’s like the rich forgot. And while I really don’t want to see political violence I am sure that a country with more guns than people is not going to react well to a new gilded age.
Let me know how you come out. Happy digging rabbit. Happy digging.
Edit: One of the crazy things in that wiki article to me was it listed ~1,000,000 shots fired, and only about 34 dead.
That would mean if the average person shot 100 rounds, and they knew 300 other people in attendance, on average 1 of those 300 may have actually shot someone dead.
I liked the movie League of Extraordinary Gentle back in the day, but now I know what he meant when he quoted Americans as “fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target”
In combat a lot of shots are fired without actually trying to hit someone. It’s not missing on purpose, if the target is available you shoot it. But in order to maneuver it’s safest to keep them in hiding until you’re ready to go for the kill. So a lot of shots are fired trying to get that advantage. Of course in peer to peer combat both sides are trying to get that advantage and a ton of infantry training revolves around how exactly to do that. In combat with one trained force and one untrained force it’s almost always an easy win for the trained force because the untrained people don’t understand how the trained force managed to magically appear in their weakest spot while still shooting at them from the front.
In order to do that you spend bullets. Lots of bullets.
IIRC You want to suppress the enemy and move to flank them. If you wait to see the enemy you risk giving them the upper hand.
I would recommend Chill Goblin’s Oliver Anthony, Welfare, and Blair Mountain.