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I have to admit, I'm not very experienced in armed conflicts with drug cartels, but the idea that engaging their people with your AR-15 would be better than retreating and/or deescalating seems more like a gun fantasy to me than a realistic assessment of such situations.

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I have significantly less experience on the topic than Enginerrrd seems to, but I can confirm that:

> the idea that engaging their people with your AR-15 would be better than retreating and/or deescalating seems more like a gun fantasy to me than a realistic assessment

is more a product of your

> not very experienced in armed conflicts with drug cartels

that it is a accurate assessment of how effective/possible retreating and/or deescalating is.

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