Darwin Award?

[Ssnake]

Maybe. Maybe a thicker book. But all that totally misses the point: When you place an item between your heart and a gun, the smart thing is to not load the gun, to not aim at a person without the intent to kill, and to not pull the trigger; failing that, to not step in front of the gun in the first place if you have the choice.

[Stuart Galbraith]

What book would stop a .50 pistol?

Herman Kahns 'On Thermonuclear war'. I cant get through it either.

 

I guess they mythbusted the theory that God looks after the truly stupid....

[toysoldier]

Maybe. Maybe a thicker book. But all that totally misses the point: When you place an item between your heart and a gun, the smart thing is to not load the gun, to not aim at a person without the intent to kill, and to not pull the trigger; failing that, to not step in front of the gun in the first place if you have the choice.

 

Oh, we are waving the whole foolishness of the matter. For starters a pregnant woman, probably suffering the usual decalcification, shouldn't be shooting a hand cannon like that, less she wants to crack a wrist really painfully.

[shep854]

I think Mythbusters showed that an old-school Phonebook would do it.

 

Every time I think "People can't be THAT stupid" they find new ways to plumb the depths of stupidity....

Some take it as a challenge...

[shep854]

Maybe. Maybe a thicker book. But all that totally misses the point: When you place an item between your heart and a gun, the smart thing is to not load the gun, to not aim at a person without the intent to kill, and to not pull the trigger; failing that, to not step in front of the gun in the first place if you have the choice.

Getting out from behind the target is rarely a bad idea...

[CT96]

Being downrange of discharging firearms is never conducive to one's health. It is best to get out of downrange AND return fire while getting out.

[Roman Alymov]

[bd1]

 

I think Mythbusters showed that an old-school Phonebook would do it.

 

 

 

The Necronomicon? Encyclopedia Britannica? Cambridge Ancient History? Description de L'Égypte? Nobel Prizes for Dummies?

necrotelecomnicon

[CT96]

it's odd... every so often this large brick of paper appears in my driveway. I haven't used a phonebook in about 20 years, and don't know anybody who has used one in the past 15...... yet they keep sending it out. To be fair, it has gotten smaller and smaller over the years.

[chino]

Anecdotally, a couple of friends of mine in the Metropolitan Police tell me that if they make a concerted effort in a particular borough and arrest maybe a dozen people and keep them off the streets, crime drops by 90%. they often know exactly who it is by the weakest of descriptions and the MO.

 

It's mainly bag/phone snatches and opportunistic burglary numbers that drop.

 

Sure, it's a combination of taking the most prolific offenders off the streets, but there will also be an element of the other criminals moving to the borough next door when a "surge" is on.

 

Duterte seems to think the same about the PH drug problem. Of course, he is keeping them off the street permanently.

 

[chino]

 

 

I think Mythbusters showed that an old-school Phonebook would do it.

 

 

 

The Necronomicon? Encyclopedia Britannica? Cambridge Ancient History? Description de L'Égypte? Nobel Prizes for Dummies?

necrotelecomnicon

 

My favourite gun channel guy, Paul Harrell:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECug_76_NLg

[Ivanhoe]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/florida-man-sits-on-gun-shoots-self-in-penis-police-say

 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville man accidentally shot himself in the penis early Friday morning when he sat on a gun in the driver's seat of his car, police said.

Police were called to the hospital just before 3 a.m. because of the gunshot wound.

Investigators found that the man was convicted of cocaine possession in 2004.

It's possible he will be facing charges for possessing a firearm, because he is a convicted felon.

 

 

Doh!

[DougRichards]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/florida-man-sits-on-gun-shoots-self-in-penis-police-say

 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville man accidentally shot himself in the penis early Friday morning when he sat on a gun in the driver's seat of his car, police said.

Police were called to the hospital just before 3 a.m. because of the gunshot wound.

Investigators found that the man was convicted of cocaine possession in 2004.

It's possible he will be facing charges for possessing a firearm, because he is a convicted felon.

 

 

Doh!

 

Was the weapon cocked before it fired?

[Jeff]

 

http://www.news4jax.com/news/florida-man-sits-on-gun-shoots-self-in-penis-police-say

 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville man accidentally shot himself in the penis early Friday morning when he sat on a gun in the driver's seat of his car, police said.

Police were called to the hospital just before 3 a.m. because of the gunshot wound.

Investigators found that the man was convicted of cocaine possession in 2004.

It's possible he will be facing charges for possessing a firearm, because he is a convicted felon.

 

 

Doh!

 

Was the weapon cocked before it fired?

 

Perhaps, but he was certainly uncocked afterwards.

[Ivanhoe]

He shouldn't have purchased a pistol that featured a decocker.

[MiloMorai]

Would hate to be him when he goes up the river.

[mnm]

Pissing contests a thing of the past for lack of a thing.

[APF]

Does a near miss count?

[DougRichards]

Some phuquer (it seem he was actually performing the act at the time) pulls a replica pistol from his pants in a nightclub and aims it at police.

 

And gets shot............................

 

what else would you expect? ! ? ! ? !

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-08/two-shot-by-police-at-melbourne-nightclub-costume-party/8689944

 

"A man and a woman have been taken to hospital after being shot by police while attending a swingers costume party at a nightclub in Melbourne's CBD.

 

Police said they received reports a 35-year-old man was armed with a gun in an upstairs room during a Saints and Sinners "erotic fancy dress" Ball at Inflation nightclub on King Street shortly after 3:00am.

 

Critical Incident Response Team officers said they tried to talk to the man when they arrived, but he pulled out what they thought was a handgun from his pants and aimed it at police.

 

The man was then shot in the torso by police.

 

A woman also suffered a gunshot wound to the leg.

 

Superintendent Lisa Hardeman said venue security were told earlier in the night the gun was fake, and that information was given to police.

"But when the firearm was levelled at police, and police asked the man to drop it and he didn't, police at that stage were not aware whether it was an imitation or a firearm," she said.

"The woman was in close proximity to the male and police as they opened fire, she was also injured."

 

Police yet to confirm if gun was a fake

 

Superintendent Hardeman said police were still investigating whether the gun was an imitation.

 

"The firearm is in the contained scene which is being processed by our forensic people," she said.

 

She said the shooting occurred on the first floor of the nightclub where there were about 10 people. About 100 people were at the venue at the time of the shooting.

 

The man was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition. Police later said his injuries were not life-threatening.

 

The woman was taken to the Alfred Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The two were known to each other.

 

Police said the investigation would be overseen by Professional Standards Command, which is standard protocol in a police shooting.

 

The number of shots police fired is not known but will be investigated, Superintendent Hardeman said.

 

She said officers would be given support after the shooting.

 

"If you look at all the circumstances when a gun is aimed at you, and you ask somebody to drop the gun and that does not occur, you need to make a split-second decision to protect yourself," she said.

 

"Police don't come to work to shoot people, they come to work to do their job."

Edited July 8, 2017 by DougRichards

[Mike Steele]

 

Some phuquer (it seem he was actually performing the act at the time) pulls a replica pistol from his pants in a nightclub and aims it at police.

 

And gets shot............................

 

.....

 

"If you look at all the circumstances when a gun is aimed at you, and you ask somebody to drop the gun and that does not occur, you need to make a split-second decision to protect yourself," she said.

 

 

"Police don't come to work to shoot people, they come to work to do their job."

i thought you confiscated all the guns? How that working out for you......

[mnm]

They left the toy guns out and this is what happens.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Re confiscating all the guns, there are reports in the papers that some British airports may be planning in inviting US armed police into the airports. Apparently the response has been fairly relaxed. Its not as if we dont have swarms of armed police at the airports anyway.

 

http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/20/american-armed-guards-could-be-posted-at-british-airports-under-new-plans-5577400/

[DougRichards]

 

 

Some phuquer (it seem he was actually performing the act at the time) pulls a replica pistol from his pants in a nightclub and aims it at police.

 

And gets shot............................

 

.....

 

"If you look at all the circumstances when a gun is aimed at you, and you ask somebody to drop the gun and that does not occur, you need to make a split-second decision to protect yourself," she said.

 

 

"Police don't come to work to shoot people, they come to work to do their job."

i thought you confiscated all the guns? How that working out for you......

 

 

 

"There has been a pronounced change in the type of weapons used in homicide since monitoring began. Firearm use has declined by more than half since 1989-90 as a proportion of homicide methods, and there has been an upward trend in the use of knives and sharp instruments, which in 2006-07 accounted for nearly half of all homicide

victims."

 

http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide/weapon.html

Edited July 9, 2017 by DougRichards

[mnm]

When knives, screwdrivers, carpentry tools, etc are banned, people will resort to blunt instruments. After that, poisoning. There will always be a way.

[Stuart Galbraith]

When knives, screwdrivers, carpentry tools, etc are banned, people will resort to blunt instruments. After that, poisoning. There will always be a way.