I wanted to put the ammo purchase in perspective.
If we can get a reliable number of rounds purchased for “domestic
consumption” we can divide by 25, 000 to get a lowball estimate of the
kill rate. A quick calculation yields a minimum of 18,000 civilian
deaths.
This
does not factor differences due to modern weapons or increased
mortality due to use of internationally outlawed fragmentation rounds,
which ensure death for most chest wounds, and substantially increase
death for the majority of otherwise treatable extremity wounds.
Historic estimates indicate only 16%, or approximately 1/6th, of WWI and WWII infantry soldiers actually fired at the enemy in combat.
WWII
combat-ready triage units achieved a maximum of 50% survival rates.
These units were trained and provisioned. We wouldn’t have this for
civilians shot in the confrontation. Worse, the use of frag rounds can’t
be properly factored. Without doubt, the infection will kill more than
the initial injury.
Personally,
I believe this estimate would be unreliably low for other
unquantifiable reasons... The shooters would not be military, but
civilian, and not constrained by Geneva Conventions or the
constitutional, as I called to discuss earlier today. They would not be
required to render aid and assistance. They would not be unreasonably
mandated to minimize collateral damage, as our soldiers are in
Afghanistan. It would be acceptable under their orders of operation to
kill children and women. They are not professional soldiers conditioned
to find killing deplorable and to operate under limited rules of
engagement, mindful of legal repercussions. They come from a narcissist,
video-game generation and are psychologically conditioned to ignore
moral constraints against killing and murder. Furthermore, they have
been exposed to blood and gore on a daily basis with television,
internet, and other sources—further reducing their hesitation or
reluctance—which remains a primary goal of basic training. Finally,
given the immoral climate and degraded cultural situation, many consider
killing a badge of honor and consider notches in the gun a status
symbol.
An
estimated 70 million died. So you figure multiply that by anywhere from
10 to 100. and you have anywhere between 70,000,000 and 700,000,000
rounds. I think it is a number that cannot be even estimated because you
also need to take into account rounds fired from aircraft and naval
ships.
In
a report by Colonel Hays Park to the USMC, he quotes statistics from
the US military records regarding the consumption of ammunition in
recent wars.
"In
World War II, the United States and its allies expended 25,000 rounds
of ammunition to kill a single enemy soldier. In the Korean War, the
ammunition expenditure had increased four fold to 100,00 rounds per
soldier. In the Vietnam War, that figure had doubled to 200,000 rounds
of ammunition for the death of a single enemy soldier."
The above was extracted from the book: "Snipers" by Craig Cabell and Richard Brown.
John Blake Publishing;
London 2005.
ISBN 1 84454 131 2
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