Reply #125: Completely appropriate...

[natasha1]

Obviously, the beltway snipers were not up against military forces. They were a couple of nut-jobs shooting randomly at civilians.

Such a technique could, however, be quite effective as guerilla tactics against a tyrannical government or its armed forces.

The point was, and still is, small arms could be quite effective against regular troops and tyrannical governments.

I did provide one example of how small arms in Iraq have been quite effective at engaging regular troops - Iraq. Mogadishu could be considered another such example. The Afghanistan resistance against the former Soviet Union could be another. There are countless examples of guerilla warfare waged with small and/or improvised munitions.

That was the point. Small arms are effective against even regular forces.

Nat