Bryan Malinowski, executive director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, was fatally wounded in a shootout as ATF agents tried to serve a search warrant at his home.

An executive for the Little Rock, Arkansas, airport who was killed in a shootout with federal agents this week had been under investigation over gun sales, search warrant records unsealed Thursday show.

Bryan Malinowski, 53, who was executive director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, was shot after he opened fire at federal agents who arrived to serve a warrant Tuesday morning, officials said.

Malinowski died Thursday, his family said. His brother has said he was shot in the head.

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    In the 14xxs the balance of power was fairly even. They didn’t have B52s dropping ninja bombs or A10s or helicopters with mini guns. Gravy Seals will die if they take on the government.

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      No, it was absolutely the same. Professional soldiers and knights with good gear and lifetime experience would easily massacre any amateur force and they regularly did.

      It was less about technology (though a piece of that gear would cost a few villages with serfs, so technology too) and more about experience, but that’s the case now as well.

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        So you think that the difference between a farm implement and a sword and armour is the same as the difference between an AR15 and a B52 wirh a ninja bombs, an A10, and a helicopter with side mounted mini guns?

        Well then, by all means, have at 'er.

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          Doesn’t have to be the same. The distance from Earth to the Moon is not the same order of magnitude as the distance from the Moon to the Sun, but for many purposes could as well be.

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            That is utterly ridiculous. Literally worthy of ridicule.

            The pleasant and knight could see each other. They had to be within a few yards of each other. The US government could take you out from an airplane 10 miles up and you would just end without knowing it was coming.

            But, as I say, by all means, bring it. The rest of us would like to have it over and get on with our lives.

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              Does the government just bombing poor farmers ever work though? Recent history indicates a handful of determined fighters stand a really good chance against the U.S. military. Actually, has a conventional force ever won against a local insurgency?

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                We’re not taking about our farmers. We’re taking about christofascist Gravy Seals. The vast majority of the population don’t want the US to become a fascist theocratic dictatorship.

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                  Not every nutter is a Gravy Seal I promise.

                  Flipped on its head your argument boils down to: If the GOP keeps winning and the country sinks further into fascism we should just give up because we won’t be able to resist the might of the military anyway no matter how many of us don’t want a theocracy.

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                    There’s a distinct difference between 400 million people who don’t want to live under a christofascist dictatorship and 30 million do think they do. The reality is that there are a very small number of people who are willing to continue to live out their collective fantasy after they see someone standing beside them lose their head to a 7.62 bullet. Everything changes when you’re on a two way range. The attack on congress was ended when a single bullet ripped through the chest of a single traitor and everyone thought, "Holy fucking shitballs! They’re shooting white people! They’re going to fucking kill us! "

                    The problem with collective fantasies in echo chambers is that no one ever says, “They’re going to be shooting back with more powerful weapons. How many of us are going to die and what will happen if we lose?”

                    You never lose in a collective fantasy.

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              That is utterly ridiculous. Literally worthy of ridicule.

              I think you’re the only thing here worth of ridicule.

              The pleasant and knight could see each other. They had to be within a few yards of each other. The US government could take you out from an airplane 10 miles up and you would just end without knowing it was coming.

              A cat and a mouse too, but I haven’t head of a mouse killing a cat.

              The rest of us would like to have it over and get on with our lives.

              That’s a good point, wasted enough of my time on a modern equivalent of that peasant.