Two weeks ago, this happened:

DONETSK, June 29, /ITAR-TASS/. Self-defence forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic have taken control over a missile defence army unit equipped with Buk missile defence systems, the press service of the Donetsk People’s Republic told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

So far, no details are available about the number and condition of the missile systems taken over by the self-defence forces. The press service refused to comment.

The Buk missile defence system is a mobile medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system designed to defend field troops and logistics installations against air threats in conditions of heavy electronic countermeasures and intense enemy fire.

And today, this happened:

According to the anti-terrorist operation's information center, Ukraine's aviation did not fly today. The area where the plane crashed was in an area controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists.

Russian-backed separatist leader Igor Girkin (who also goes by the name of Strelkov) claimed credit. "The plane has just been taken down somewhere around Torez (Donetsk Oblast). It lays there behind the Progress mine. We did warn you – do not fly in 'our sky.' And here is the video proving another 'bird' falling down. The bird went down behind the slagheap, not in the residential district. So no peaceful people were injured. There is also information about another plane shot.

And now they are lying about it, because they didn't know WTF they were doing with their big weapons, and don't want anyone to know that their reckless negligence has killed hundreds of innocent people.

Delusional assholes with weapons they can't handle - fucking the world up, everywhere.

And, this whole thing puts me to thinking about what the US would look like if the blithering idiots who hoard guns for the always-coming revolution actually managed to get access to heavy weapons. Lots of innocent dead people, killed by trigger-happy suburbanites playing soldier, I suspect.