Wanna bet they're mercenaries?
@Smokin Joe Mercenaries aren't stupid. They don't fight if they know they are going to lose. There is no money to be made when you are dead.
They will hire sociopaths and sadists employed by a private contractor,and they will be former cops who were fired for police brutality. They will then swear them in as some sort of deputies,and give them badges. People that would work for free if you promised to give them full-auto weapons and a pass on shooting anyone they wanted to shoot.
This will happen because no one else will take the job.
What nobody seems to be taking into consideration is how many combat vets and hunters who are used to killing and blood that live in southern states like Virginia. If you shoot ONE of them,every freaking relative they have will "gun up" and come after your ass,regardless of what kind of badge you have or who gave you a blessing.
Gangbangers kill people by accident because they are not used to either shooting or killing,and for the most part their shootings are a part of their "Ahm a bad-ass,yes ah am,yes,ah am!",never mind they accidentally killed a 3 year old instead of the gangbanger they were supposedly after.
That won't be the case with these people. Many of them can shoot your eye out at 100 yards,and pick the eye. They don't shoot to make a pose as a "bad man" or to scare anyone,they shoot to hit what they are shooting at.
These posers with their full-auto Uzi's don't scare me,but a old man with a Model 70 Winchester he has owned and shot for 40+ years does if I think he is going to shoot at me.
There is a WORLD of difference in being shot and being shot AT. Trust me on this one.