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Why do you think the President ages so much during their term? Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
If they had the bolts in the rifles, people would claim that "since other President's took the bolts out," that Obama had them left in because he was flexing his military prowess.
I think it's sad that any President's inauguration would be subject to Marine's loyalty being questioned.
Sensationalist media crits you for 276219
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Would you like to use common sense?
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
BTW, Examiner.com uses bloggers for many of its "articles" take it with a grain of salt.
I'm sorry? What's the issue here? What, those people are more trustworthy than your average citizen? What, there's no chance for a mentally or morally disturbed person to be among them? Sounds like they're superhumans to me if that's the case.
Interesting if you want it to be. I do not see why they should be in working order. It is all just pageantry, something I do not give a shit about.
This is one of the most sensible things that the administration has done.
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Some of you are really grasping for straws now and it's getting quite pathetic at this point...
Originally Posted by kasath
Money gets locked up in safes. They lock the stores at night, I get checked up at the airport and they have these traffic lights everywhere - they think I'm not trustworthy!
Edit: retracting previous statement and adding this: I'm not 100% sure, but don't armed forces "drill teams" use decommissioned rifles to preform drill and ceremony with? If so, then the inauguration is a ceremony and the Marines marching were part of the ceremony -- not the security. Someone in the armed forces, please correct me if I'm wrong.
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This isnt about obama. this isnt about the SS. this isnt about civilians. this is about the marines.
Marines are the first in. They are the first to kill, and the first to die. Its not a huge issue, but its bullshit that this happened. Put whoever made this decision through parris island. Let the sand fleas deal with it.
In fact as far as I'm aware the UK is the only european nation that outright bans guns for civilians.This is why people ban guns. Gun supporters don't know what guns are.Shotguns I'll give you (provided you're allowed 12 and larger gauges... because I mean... come on...) but not .22s.
Well from that article who knows whos idea it was to use the rifles without bolts. Maybe it was the marines. We dont know since the article is just 100% speculation and trying to cause a problem that might not exist.
It was a cold day, its entirely possible the bolts were left off so they coudnt stick and jam the rifles. Thats a much better theory than the president is afraid a marine is going to kill him with a 50 year old parade rifle.
Parris Island is where Marine recruits go for basic, if they live east of the Mississippi River. What he's saying is that whoever came up with the idea, is incredibly disrespectful towards the Corps and everything they have done, so they/that person needs to go through basic to see the minimum that Marines go through.
It would have to be much colder for that to happen, and the guns would need to be in operation for jams to occur.
When blanks are needed, it needs to be operable. Think 21 gun salute etc.
I don't get why they couldn't just use blanks feels kinda disrespectful even tho I'm not a war person.
Most of the drill teams have rifles that are disabled via firing pin and such, so they still look and feel fully functional. Removing the bolts just seems odd/ redundant, though maybe these rifles were not the same class.
They're M1's, they're not the current rifle, their only purpose is for drills/ salutes and such.