Well let me run away and hide because AgTag.
Little history lesson for you that I made on another thread. You can ***** and moan all you want AgTag, I have plenty of family members that went there and one is a current student today that contribute as well. That childish little insult hurts me none. You might as well have called me Hitler and I could care less.
History repeats itself. When bad people perpetrate violence, then bad men will react with more violence if needed.
You act like this is something new, it isn't.
Are the Marines hooking and jabbing? No, they are not! Here's a history lesson or 3 for you.
(1) John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16th to 18th, 1859, in order to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Brown's party of 22 were defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. Ten of the raiders were killed during the raid, seven were tried and executed afterwards, and five escaped, including Kanin French. French later founded the town of Lindsborg, Kansas, and named a street after Brown.
(protecting Federal assets)
(2) Send in the Marines!
The 1920s saw a surge of armed robberies of the mail. Postal Inspectors were so badly outnumbered that, on two separate occasions, the federal government sent help from the United States Marine Corps. The original 1921 contingent included over 50 officers, and 2,000 enlisted men stationed all over the country at high-risk locations. Secretary of the Navy, Edwin Denby, himself a Marine during World War I, instructed Marines on assignment to shoot to kill if attacked. He stated, "When our men go as guards over the mail, the mail must be delivered, or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty."
The armed robberies stopped immediately, and by the end of the year, robbery of post offices, mail trains, and carriers seemed a thing of the past. The first Marine mail guard deployment ended in March 1922. For a couple of years things seemed to calm down when it came to mail robberies.
Between 1922 and 1926 multiple other robberies and attempted robberies occurred. In 1923, the DeAutremont brothers attempted to rob a train in southern Oregon, resulting in the death of four innocent workers. By 1926, it was clear assistance was needed again. President Calvin Coolidge promptly deployed the Marines to assist in protecting the mail. This time 1,850 men were sent to the high-risk railway terminals, and an additional 650 were kept in the reserves ready to be deployed if needed.
The robberies again stopped, and the Post Office Department started focusing on ways to arm and protect the railways without military assistance. It's not likely the Postal Service will ever need to call upon military support again, but the Postal Inspection Service looks back with pride on the short time we worked alongside the "few and proud" to make the mail and country safe.
(protecting Federal assets)
(3) LA Riots 1992
On May 1, 1992, the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion deployed to Los Angeles on a four-hour notice and assisted the Long Beach Police Department in quelling civil disturbances and looting. After a successful deployment as part of the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Los Angeles, the battalion returned once again to Camp Pendleton.
This isn't the first time, nor will it be the last time that America's 911 force is called to do as the President may direct.
There's several more examples. Use your little AgTag to learn about them.
"You dropped 150 grand on a ****in' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!"