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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/11490010
Update, yes there are snipers:
My understanding of the original comment was that it was a marksman/spotter. Those are two people who work in tandem to perform a function.
The spotter looks at the larger picture, usually with some kind of binocular or similar, looking for threats and scanning a large area. Their other function is to protect the marksman. So if a threat (or anything really) approaches their position, the marksman can continue to focus on their job, while the spotter defends their position.
The marksman is simply just a sniper. It's a fancy name for a sniper.
They deploy like this in pretty much every operation. Two man teams. The spotter providing protection and support for the marksman, and the marksman executing the mission.
I feel like people missed that, or maybe I misunderstood the poster? IDK.
Killing people is bad.
A needless inaccurate distinction obscuring what it really is, it is a sniper. It is not normal. These crowds existed before the snipers arrived and will exist long after the protests end.
I'm not trying to obfuscate anything. The job title of a "sniper" is "marksman".
A marksman is basically a highly accurate Rifleman which is a type of infantry.
This is all military shit.
"Sniper" is just a more commonly used term for a marksman, but they're exactly the same thing.
The only point to my comment is that you seemed to think that the commenter saying it was a marksman meant it wasn't a sniper. They're literally the same job.
Are they also not the students from the school? So they would have been on campus but not all in one place anyway.
Again with pointless and needless distinctions that attempt to lessen the sin being committed.
Umm, I think you have my point backwards...... unless you are implying the protesters are sinners?
I'm saying it doesn't matter if the people at the protest went to school there or not, that the sniper isn't warranted, but I do apologize that in a heated moment I accused you of intentionally aiding the opposition.
Oh, no worries. I was confused but I don't think I made my point clear. It was just adding on the ridiculous notion that a large amount of people means snipers for some reason, these people from what I can see would be on campus anyway and the only difference I can see from say 3 months ago would be the political protests.