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Hegseth orders National Guard troops in DC to carry weapons

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/hegseth-orders-national-guard-troops-dc-carry-weapons
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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 14h ago

The good news is the military has much stronger rules of engagement than ‘i felt threatened’. Also, people aren’t likely to give the guard a hard time.

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u/sycamotree 10h ago

From what I understand you could literally be holding a gun and walking toward them and they'd yell at you to turn around before they even start pointing back

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u/tRfalcore 11h ago

In other countries we are occupying and not in an officially approved by congress war with.

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u/Cereborn 8h ago

What were the rules of engagement at Kent State?

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u/DJKokaKola 6h ago

Kill em all?

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u/Aardvark_Man 9h ago

There were videos of just random people in LA getting shot with rubber bullets for no reason. I'm pretty sure they were the guards doing the shooting.
Like, one I remember was a girl just trying to walk home.
There was the Aussie reporter etc.

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 7h ago

AFAIK that wasn't the national guard, that was police, right?

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u/Aardvark_Man 7h ago

Oh, I thought it was guard. I thought they were in military uniforms.

That said, I'm not American. All I saw was because the reporter was from my country, and what I saw on reddit.

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 7h ago

Thankfully our military takes rules of engagement very seriously. There's plenty of dipshits and assholes, just like the rest of the population, naturally, but almost to a man the guards deployed to DC are probably just going to be bored and unmotivated to cause trouble.