Cont: Today's Mass Shooting (2)

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sackett said:
Since Dr. Sid is clearly the first person in history to make an unfortunate utterance (none of We the Advanced Beings has ever done such a thing), it is altogether fitting and proper to chastise him for it.

When we have done enough chastising, I am confident that we will stop.
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Well when someone comments on a shooting where people have been torn apart, saying, in effect “ that’s not so bad, other guns would have made it worse” it is indeed unfortunate and worthy of chastisement.
 
sackett said:
Since Dr. Sid is clearly the first person in history to make an unfortunate utterance (none of We the Advanced Beings has ever done such a thing), it is altogether fitting and proper to chastise him for it.

When we have done enough chastising, I am confident that we will stop.
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He does defend himself.

The 5.56 round was designed to be as at least as lethal as larger rounds on the unarmoured or lightly armoured human body.
 
a_unique_person said:
He does defend himself.

The 5.56 round was designed to be as at least as lethal as larger rounds on the unarmoured or lightly armoured human body.
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Because that is, after all, the purpose of such weapons: To maim and kill.

Hans
 
Back to our regularly scheduled not-a-mass-shooting mass shooting, this time from Gary, Indiana.

3 killed, 7 wounded when people in two separate cars pulled a drive-by at a block party. One black woman and two black men, one of whom was the mayor's cousin, were the victims this time.

Before some not so smart cookies dismiss this as gang bangers killing one another:

Witnesses tell FOX 32 Chicago that two vehicles drove by, both with multiple people inside, firing several gunshots at the crowd of bystanders.

The victims are all believed to be innocent bystanders, per authorities.
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https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/m...hree-people-killed-at-4th-of-july-block-party
 
sackett said:
Come to that, high velocity .22s have never had any function off the target range except to explode flesh, whether varmints or men. That's why I propose that BATF rewrite their regs to include 5.56 x 45 in the category of destructive devices.
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I remember when I was a kid my father once went squirrel hunting with a .22 rifle loaded with Stinger ammunition (high velocity hollow point). His aim was off with one shot and it tore the squirrel's hind leg off, shattering the bone to pieces. He swore at that point that he wouldn't use them again because they were too cruel if your aim wasn't perfect.
 
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Armitage72 said:
I remember when I was a kid my father once went squirrel hunting with a .22 rifle loaded with Stinger ammunition (high velocity hollow point). His aim was off with one shot and it tore the squirrel's hind leg off, shattering the bone to pieces. He swore at that point that he wouldn't use them again because they were too cruel if your aim wasn't perfect.
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So not the kind of person who thinks exploding prairie dogs with a 5.56 is funny and great entertainment?
 
In the interests of not getting accused of ignoring those occasions when it does happen:

Shooter kills three people in a shopping mall in Indianapolis before being gunned down by a bystander

A gunman has killed three people when he opened fire in the food court of a shopping mall outside Indianapolis before a bystander fatally shot the assailant, Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said.

Two other people were injured in the incident, which took place in the early evening at Greenwood Park Mall, the Indianapolis Star reported.

"The real hero of the day is the citizen [who] was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began," Chief Ison told reporters.
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I'm kind of annoyed by the immediate jump to "good guy with a gun" praise from some people, as if these people just can't wait to participate in an action scene when they are involved in the next public shooting.

That said, the good man in this story who stopped the shooter has not put himself on the spotlight just yet. He did give his name though.
 
Venom said:
I'm kind of annoyed by the immediate jump to "good guy with a gun" praise from some people, as if these people just can't wait to participate in an action scene when they are involved in the next public shooting.

That said, the good man in this story who stopped the shooter has not put himself on the spotlight just yet. He did give his name though.
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The good guy with the gun, praiseworthy that he indisputably is, is not necessary in the absence of our freakishly illogical gun laws.
 
Venom said:
I'm kind of annoyed by the immediate jump to "good guy with a gun" praise from some people, as if these people just can't wait to participate in an action scene when they are involved in the next public shooting.

That said, the good man in this story who stopped the shooter has not put himself on the spotlight just yet. He did give his name though.
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If the bad guy didn't have a gun, the good guy would not have needed his and nobody would have died.
 
I saw "Parkland" in the news and had to stop and actually look it up because my first thought was "Which one is that, again?" There have been so many now it's hard to separate them in my mind.
 
Dr.Sid said:
Doubt permitless carry had any effect. It's related to handguns. Not rifles. If anything, it could enable the good guy to carry his.
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Yup...let's all have faith in the fact that "the good guy" might actually do something useful in the situation and not add collateral.
 
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