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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
In this case, yes they can.
a horde of people rushing a military base with the intention of overwhelming them and getting in.
I think they can just open fire, and be justified in doing so although they likely would take other measures first.
I think they'd win the PR battle over a horde of nutjobs, alien enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists and anarchists rushing a military base.
besides, how many of them would actually take a bullet before the rest said "screw this, I'm out of here"?
there would be more deaths from the fleeing stampede than from gunfire.
realistically, out of say 500,000 clicking a button to show their interest, how many will actually show up? a few hundred perhaps? then they'd mill around, wonder what to do. maybe get interviewed and talk about the conspiracy to hide the truth,and then leave.
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Area 51 while probably not a hive of alien activity, with vaults full of alien bodies featuring aliens working cheerfully side by side with their human counterparts on developing new technology for the betterment of the old USA, is still a top secret facility and probably a advanced flight research facility.
The funny thing is that the base has been expanding which leads me to believe that there are all kinds of weapons and advanced flight research still happening there.
And a pretty no nonsense warning has been posted by the US Military on line.
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"[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces," a spokeswoman told The Washington Post. "The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets."
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Now will they shoot people? Probably not unless these idiots cross a well defined "Line in the sand". But I'm betting that the FBI is already monitoring this as is the DIA, and the Air Force is going to have extra personal, and non lethal yet extremely uncomfortable methods of breaking this thing up.
It stops becoming a joke if some of these idiots thing that they can rush one of the most highly classified government facilities in the country.