The Truth About Sniper Dangers During Civil Unrest and #SHTF
SELCO: The Truth About Snipers
SELCO: The Truth About Snipers
Because of the growing fear of mass shootings and terrorist attacks all over the world, advice about how to survive mass shootings or sniper attacks are everywhere, and there are useful but there is a bit of confusion there.
Sniper attacks in collapse and mass shootings today in peaceful times have a lot of common things, but some facts are different.
I will concentrate here on some advice concerning sniper attacks when SHTF since I have seen and experienced more than a few of those.
What are the reasons for sniper attacks?
I know you all seen movies or read the books about sniper attacks that are been made with careful planning and surgical precision from a great distance, by highly professional personnel. You might see that when the world goes to s**t, but most probably you won’t ( unless you are in the military profession).
In days of chaos, snipers were used mostly for one particular reason – to give folks a feeling of HORROR.
If you are not sure where you can safely move, if you are not sure where is a safe spot where you can look for resources, you are in constant fear. Even more, if snipers do not make a clear distinction between combatants and non-combatants, when they shoot women, men, or children, that horror becomes even stronger.
Now, you can say that you are not going to face civil war, and situation like me, so you are not going to have situation where you gonna be faced with those kinds of snipers, but keep in mind that all that you need for similar situation is the…
Exceptional analysis of asymmetric warfare tactics. The distinction you make between surgical sniping and terror-driven tactics in collapse scenarios cuts right to the psychology of control. When snipers blur the combatant/civilian line, they're not just takign territory, they're attacking the mental infrastructure that allows people to function in public space. That Northern Ireland data from 1972 really drives it home becuase even trained soldiers couldn't adapt fast enough to the constant threat.
Snipers are being replaced with assassin's drones. Fly up, ID and shoot in head...or for a group, claymore mounted. And if high priority, a swarm used with a Barrett 50 cal as backup. Either way...