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Merged Osama bin Laden dead,

I'm pretty sure he was left handed as well, but I'm going to go the nitpick route for a moment. I've shot left-handed as well, despite being right-hand dominant. In the Marines at least (where I learned to shoot), you were taught not to shoot your rifle dependent on dominant hand, but rather dominant eye. They don't always sync up like you'd think. We had one guy who was left handed shooting left handed. Had absolutely horrible grouping. Finally his range coach convinced him to try it the other way. He ended up shooting low expert almost immediately.
 
Mister Earl said:
I'm pretty sure he was left handed as well, but I'm going to go the nitpick route for a moment. I've shot left-handed as well, despite being right-hand dominant. In the Marines at least (where I learned to shoot), you were taught not to shoot your rifle dependent on dominant hand, but rather dominant eye. They don't always sync up like you'd think. We had one guy who was left handed shooting left handed. Had absolutely horrible grouping. Finally his range coach convinced him to try it the other way. He ended up shooting low expert almost immediately.
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Quite true. I'm right-handed, but I shoot rifle left-handed, because my left eye is better. Pistol I shoot right-handed, but I line up with my left eye. There's not much reason to use the dominant hand on the trigger of a rifle, and it might even be better to have the dominant hand hold the stock, because that's where you get aiming. With pistol, of course, keeping the angle of the pistol correct is more important than just about anything else, so you want the dominant hand involved.
 
Raleigh Marsden said:
The idea that bin laden was killed just the other day is laughable. If some kid said it and showed everyone those images of him supposedly watching tv and holding the remote with his right hand (even though he's left handed)
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I'm right handed and operate the TV remote with my left hand.
 
elgarak said:
We know OBL was left-handed, as he was filmed shooting an AK-47 left-handed.

The taboo is certainly there, so he may have been trained to be ambidextrous (doing all the right things with the right hand, and doing anything else with the left).

Be this as it may, I don't think that using a TV remote is a good indicator for handedness. I can, and do regularly for convenience, easily use a remote with both hands, being right-handed.
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My father was left-handed and grew up in an age when left-handed children were forced to learn to write with their right hand.

For his entire life, his handwriting looked like that of a second-grader.
 
Mister Earl said:
In the Marines at least (where I learned to shoot), you were taught not to shoot your rifle dependent on dominant hand, but rather dominant eye. They don't always sync up like you'd think.
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NITPICK. You don't have a dominant eye, you have a dominant field of vision.

The left half of both eyes goes to your right brain, the right half of both eyes goes to your left brain.
 
bikerdruid said:
i can understand his hatred for american exploitation and control in the middle east, and i can have some sympathy for his initial motivations, which were:

ending American military presence in the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula,[1][2] overthrowing Arab regimes he considers corrupt and insufficiently religious,[1][2] ending American support for Israel,[3][4] and returning East Timor and Kashmir to Muslim rule.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism

that is the limit of my stated "some sympathy".
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So you have sympathy for his belief that Saudi Arabia, for example (where the religious police once locked girls inside a burning school because they weren't properly covered from head to toe to come out in public), is not religious enough?

And other regions should be placed under this type of "Muslim rule"? :boggled:
 
bikerdruid said:
insomuch as i sympathize with anyone who struggles for freedom against american corporate tyranny, yes, his other issues notwithstanding.
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OBL's motives had nothing at all to do with "american corporate tyranny". He is not some leftist.
 
aggle-rithm said:
NITPICK. You don't have a dominant eye, you have a dominant field of vision.
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You may be right in general, but some people, me, for example, do have a dominant eye. The vision in my left eye is, or at least before the ravages of age was, nearly perfect, while my right eye is long sighted and lazy and the image is generally slightly blurred. When I did rifle shooting, I would shoot left-handed in order to use my left eye.
The left half of both eyes goes to your right brain, the right half of both eyes goes to your left brain.
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I sadly know this to be true; my other half's mother has lost some or all of the left field of vision following a brain bleed.
 
Just out of curiosity, now that Al Qaeda has admitted that bin Laden is dead, has anyone heard what the current position is of people that said the whole thing was faked and bin Laden was still alive?
 
Number Six said:
Just out of curiosity, now that Al Qaeda has admitted that bin Laden is dead, has anyone heard what the current position is of people that said the whole thing was faked and bin Laden was still alive?
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... or so the media claims
 
aggle-rithm said:
NITPICK. You don't have a dominant eye, you have a dominant field of vision.

The left half of both eyes goes to your right brain, the right half of both eyes goes to your left brain.
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That's an interesting anatomy reminder, but the conclusion seems backward to me. I have one eye that is considerably more dominant than the other. It's definitely my eye that matters since one eye has better vision altogether than the other.
 
Number Six said:
Yes, good point. Unless you hear it straight from the lips of al-Zawahari, you're hearing it via some media source, which of course do nothing but lie to we sheeple.
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I like the rumor al-Zawahari tipped off the US in order to get rid of OBL and take over the lead position. Do you suppose if we push that story al-Zawahari will be assassinated by an OBL fan?
 
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