#1. It's a myth that any soldier is just trying to wound an enemy soldier to put three other soldiers out of action. Believe me that Charley wasn't trying to wound me but kill me. I was doing the same thing. Soldiers don't stop fighting because their buddy was wounded, that's why you have medics and corpsman on the battlefield and since WW ll both the U.S. Army and Marine Corps used stretcher barriers to move the wounded to the rear. Today they use helicopters. Only the M-16 A1 or AR-15's made before 1980 chambered with the 55gr M192 5.56X45 mm cartridge caused devastating politically incorrect wounds. The M193 cartridge was declared politically incorrect by liberals and pulled out of U.S. military service after the Vietnam War during the late 1970's.
Some AR-15 rifles are configured specifically for defensive purposes, while others are configured specifically for hunting purposes. Such is one of the reasons the platform is so popular in the united states, due to how flexible it is, and how easily it can be customized. There was no prohibition against owning such, other than what the individual could afford to purchase.
The above sentiment only holds true when one is dealing with an enemy combatant that actually values human life. Against those who place a higher value on dying rather than living, such as islamic extremists, they will simply leave their wounded where they fall in combat, and continue fighting.
I have often said privately that I have no reason to ever buy an AR-15 but as a supporter of the 2nd amendment I stand by a persons right to buy one. Now listening to Creppy Pervert Joe ramble on about making them illegal, I think I may just buy one.
In Ohio, you can hunt deer with straight-walled (non-bottleneck) rifles. I give you the AR15 in 450 Bushmaster.
I am not saying the military trains to wound....nope....they train to shoot to kill. The idea that a wounded soldier takes 2-3 other soldiers only applies if those in that "army" care for one another.
During WW ll in the Pacific theatre of war, members of the division band, shore party battalion members and other support units were used as stretcher bearers who would follow behind the infantry to carrier wounded Marines or soldiers back to a medical aid station. On the other side of the world...
