As of Part 11, reading what the aftereffects of a worse Columbine could have been in detail, I can only conclude:
FUCK.
And on a personal note, there goes my middle-school education—assuming I'd even graduate from elementary ITTL. No, my sorry autistic ass would metaphorically suffocate to...
Okay, okay, okay. Dèi e spiriti, how do I put this?
TV Tropes has driven me back to this humdinger of a timeline, and I have to say—pardon my French, figurative and literal—chier une brique dans la chambre privée du Pape!
Singapore City '42. The Brits find out that Yamashita's forces are inferior in number and supplies to their own, or they call his bluff. Either way, they then dig in, forcing him to mount a direct assault.
The Army major felt a chill run down his spine as he saw yet another British soldier fall a hundred yards away. He was embedded with a Boer commando near Gordon's Knoll. The main Boer force was dug in at Laing's Nek, but their commandos were on the offensive. The Boers could not only outshoot...
What about using just the cavalry carbine? The rifle is handy, but the carbine would be handier still. 21-22 inches is the acceptable minimum barrel length for non-magnum .284-caliber rifles, right? At the very least, the rifle could be issued to snipers while everyone else gets the carbine.