Ol Paint Posted February 23 Posted February 23 Meanwhile, in Georgia... https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/us-news/georgia-man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-stalking-bombing-womans-home/ If your plans to court a woman involve dog crap, a hungry python, explosives, a bow and arrows, the postal service, dead rodents, and a professional cleaning company you probably should reconsider your life choices... Prescient skit from Key & Peele: https://youtu.be/WqBZVlgORbY?si=RPzMSOfKAlNrYSRp Doug
Stargrunt6 Posted February 23 Posted February 23 2 hours ago, Ol Paint said: Meanwhile, in Georgia... https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/us-news/georgia-man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-stalking-bombing-womans-home/ If your plans to court a woman involve dog crap, a hungry python, explosives, a bow and arrows, the postal service, dead rodents, and a professional cleaning company you probably should reconsider your life choices... Prescient skit from Key & Peele: https://youtu.be/WqBZVlgORbY?si=RPzMSOfKAlNrYSRp Doug Wow sounds expensive and time-consuming. With all that money, he could have paid some manosphere grifter to at least be told to dress nicer and bathe.
Ivanhoe Posted February 23 Posted February 23 I'm pretty sure that Texas wants no part of the Dakotas, Nebraska, etc. after the last few winter storms. If Texas secedes and wins those states in the Secession War, I can envision RoT2 trading those cornfield states to Canada in exchange for BC. At least the skiing in BC is legendary, and one can get some exceptional grilled salmon. And Canada knows how to handle flat, bleak, corn-infested wintry farmland.
JWB Posted February 23 Posted February 23 https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1893653668982820942 Joy Reid's MSNBC show is CANCELED as ratings plummet.
Ivanhoe Posted February 23 Posted February 23 https://crimeresearch.org/2025/02/a-deep-dive-into-cases-where-civilians-stopped-active-shooters-did-they-accidentally-shoot-bystanders-get-in-the-way-of-police-get-their-gun-taken-away-or-more/ Quote While civilians with concealed handgun permits stopped 51.5% of the active shootings in non-gun-free zones, police stopped 44.6% of the cases (124 arrested or killed by police, 32 committed suicide when police arrived = 156/350 = 44.57%). Interestingly, police officers were much more likely to lose their lives or be wounded in stopping these attacks than armed civilians. Twenty-seven officers were killed in 19 attacks (7.7% and 5.4%, respectively). That is 5.94 times the rate that permit holders were killed. One hundred officers were wounded in 48 attacks (28.6% and 13.7%, respectively). That rate is 17% higher than for civilians. In four cases, the police shot and killed the wrong person — twice they accidentally shot fellow police officers (Prince George’s County Police Department District 3 Station on March 13, 2016 and Borderline Bar and Grill on November 7, 2018) and twice they accidentally shot civilians (Galleria Mall in Hoover, Alabama on Nov. 23, 2018 and Highlands Ranch, Colorado on May 7, 2019). The bottom line is that the rate of police shooting the wrong person is very low, though it is slightly more than twice the rate that civilians shoot a bystander (1.14% versus 0.56%). The police accidentally shot other police officers at very slight higher than the rate that civilians shot bystanders. One thing the above analysis makes clear is that concealed carry is far better than open carry. Even though the draw takes longer, from the attacker's POV the Good Guy goes from non-threat to throwing rounds before the attacker can OODA. It would be cool if they re-did the analysis of police shootings to separate plainclothes vs uniformed LE. I have the impression that officers in plainclothes put down a lot of bad guys.
Stargrunt6 Posted February 23 Posted February 23 Yeah this warrants qualitative analysis. Re: bad shoots, the armed citizen will be there when the crime starts, so they have all the info they need to make the right decision. Also cops shooting cops sounds like a discipline and procedural issue with comms/coordination and such. As seen in this great show that was made by former cops.
Ivanhoe Posted February 23 Posted February 23 12 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said: Yeah this warrants qualitative analysis. Re: bad shoots, the armed citizen will be there when the crime starts, so they have all the info they need to make the right decision. If you think of a plainclothes cop as being an ersatz concealed carrier, then they have the same advantage. They've already done Observe and Orient, which is the hard part. Threat servicing then is simply a matter of draw, present, shoot. Some uniformed cop or two rolling in from patrol has no idea who are blue force vs red force. Same thing goes on with home invasions, BTW. Cops tend to shoot the resident as often as the intruder.
JWB Posted February 27 Posted February 27 I wonder what the gun grabbers are saying about the 3nd amendment now?
Stargrunt6 Posted February 27 Posted February 27 14 minutes ago, rmgill said: 🤔 Huh? 3rd Amendment? Don't be reddit, bro.
Ivanhoe Posted February 27 Posted February 27 If you're not aware, Data Republican has been finding all sorts of stuff in the DOGE data and whatnot.
rmgill Posted February 28 Posted February 28 9 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said: Don't be reddit, bro. Well, the third IS a valid issue. It just rarely comes up. I did see one instance where police took over someone’s house without their consent for surveillance of a neighboring property and arrested the owner for objecting. . I just wasn’t sure of the relevance here.
NickM Posted February 28 Posted February 28 (edited) Just now, rmgill said: Well, the third IS a valid issue. It just rarely comes up. I did see one instance where police took over someone’s house without their consent for surveillance of a neighboring property and arrested the owner for objecting. . I just wasn’t sure of the relevance here. That was a particular characteristic of a disgraced former NYC DA (who got taken down for a sex scandal) who's name I forgot, but he was really big about throwing his weight around (let us use your store/shop/apartment as a base for an Op, and if you don't I'll make your life hell). EDIT: Elliot Spitzer. Edited February 28 by NickM
Ivanhoe Posted March 1 Posted March 1 So the radio news mentioned that CBP was intercepting lots of eggs from Mexico being smuggled into the US. Seriously, who had egg smuggling on their 2025 bingo card?
bojan Posted March 1 Posted March 1 5 hours ago, Ivanhoe said: ...Seriously, who had egg smuggling on their 2025 bingo card?... Few years ago there was a news about some cartels turning from drugs to avocado smuggling, because profit margin was high and consequences of being caught were much less.
rmgill Posted March 1 Posted March 1 Why did I just think of Selig Vorkosigan's armsman successfully smuggled war horses to the besieged town of Vorkosigan Vashnoiby by appearing to instead be smuggling junk?
Stargrunt6 Posted March 1 Posted March 1 9 hours ago, bojan said: Few years ago there was a news about some cartels turning from drugs to avocado smuggling, because profit margin was high and consequences of being caught were much less. Kinda like gangsters in Italy switching to stepped-on olive oil.
Ivanhoe Posted March 3 Posted March 3 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/business/new-york-times-ar-15-sales-have-slowed-because-everyone-now-has-one/ Quote Even the best-selling AR-15, which in the last two decades has become known as “America’s rifle,” is owned by so many Americans that it is no longer in such demand. “Everyone’s got them,” one brick-and-mortar retailer in Minnesota said of his sales this summer. A 2021 firearms survey conducted by a Georgetown University professor found that nearly 25 million people had owned an AR-15-style rifle. Only 25 million? America, do better.
rmgill Posted March 3 Posted March 3 Remember when we were told on Tank Net that there's no difference between Biden and Trump on Immigration policy and effect?
Stargrunt6 Posted March 3 Posted March 3 6 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said: https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/business/new-york-times-ar-15-sales-have-slowed-because-everyone-now-has-one/ Only 25 million? America, do better. Did America Atari the AR? Unlike the ET game, I don't think you can saturate the market with mags, thus killing the industry.
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