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In reply to the discussion: Israel air strike 'hits charitable association for disabled' in Gaza [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)A care home for the disabled was just bombed. Innocent people are dead. But there was a shooter on the roof!
A school was exploded by missiles. Innocent people are dead. But there was a shooter on the roof!
Dozens and dozens of private homes have been flattened by artillery, their inhabitants dead, bloodied, and homeless. But there was a shooter on the roof!
The only means of providing fresh water to a coastal desert community was bombed into a ruin, leaving millions of people without access to the most basic resource for life. But there was a shooter on the roof!
No matter what gets blown up, no matter how many piles of bodies are pulled out of the rubble, no matter the anguish and human suffering caused, it's all okay. The people who dropped the bombs, fired the missiles, and launched the artillery assure us, there was a shooter on the roof.
Your argument is simply a legalistic justification, without backing evidence, for the killing of innocent people.
And in truth, I don't think that even if there is a "shooter on the roof" that it fucking applies. You want to know why?
because you are targeting this guy:
With this weapon:
Missiles are not antipersonnel weapons. They are not designed nor intended for use against "a shooter on a roof." If you are firing a missile at a building, your target is that building and everyone in it.
if you want to just get one guy - a shooter on a roof, for example, well, Israel has this thing called the IMI Tavor TAR-21: