Except it's the gate of the military base and there are procedures with dealing with these things. I get it. I don't think you should just shoot anything, but there is a line. This was the entry to the base, to the bridge that gets you on the base. The bridge itself is sensitive, and obviously the base is. This wasn't like cops unloading on a dude trying to get away because he's got warrants out. I just feel like the potential for negative results was much higher.

And these were CG security, if my understanding is correct. This wasn't Trump's hit squad, these were the dudes who have been guarding the entry point to the base for as long as the base has been there. It's literally their job, guard the entry.

I appreciate all your hypotheticals, but this real life situation is someone attempting to force entry onto a US military installation. That's the real situation, and this is how that sort of behavior is dealt with across the globe.

I'm mad about ICE too, I'm just not sure what they have to do with this situation, other than the protest being nearby. I'm not sure how the base security are helping kidnappers and being Nazis, unless your beef is with the military. Shit, I'll even say it's okay to have some beef against the military and how they've been used, but the Coast Guard? I can't think of any reason to hate on the Coast Guard.

And some might have even been in the past 40 years.

It happened to a US military base in a foreign nation, which, for all intents and purposes, is US soil. This truck was backing it's way onto a US base, refused to comply with orders. It got EOF'd. I appreciate everyone wanting to hate ICE, I think they're a bunch of bitches, but unless someone's has some legit proof this is some sort of false flag or anything, this is pretty SOP.

Congratulations, you passed. Here is your badge, gun, mask.

The driver was approaching them kinda aggressively and weirdly in a place where no cars should be at that time.

If you want to make an analogy it’s like a guy approaching the cops while threateningly waving a weapon.

Bullets dont do very well in a fight vs solid objects, the more solid the worse they perform

It's already a truck.

Sandbags are remarkably effective at stopping small arms fire, at least as long as you can keep the sand in them. If you only stacked up the back wall of the truck right in front of the door and optionally if you only did it to waist height (you'd have to lie down behind them) it would absolutely work.

A typical hardware store sandbag is 60 or 80 pounds, and to stack up to a height of, say, four feet you'd probably need around 3200 pounds worth of them or so (40 bags) based on some rough back of the envelope math and hazy recollection of the approximate size of an 80 lb bag of sand. That may exceed the recommended load weight of your small box truck per the rental agreement paperwork or whatever the hell, but I don't think in reality that would cause even a small U-Haul truck to struggle much.

Doing all four walls of the rear of the truck would probably take an inordinate amount of sand and wouldn't be too viable.

Didn't mythbusters prove phone books were effective armor?