I want to be an airborne ranger.
I want to go to Vietnam.
I want to live a life of danger
I want to kill old Charlie Cong
At least it rhymes
And do you actually think S Vietnam under Thieu or Diem was that much better? I know a bunch of people who went there who said they thought it was at least as bad (with the oppression of individual rights), if not worse
But that's what they were told to sacrifice their lives to fight for
The way I recall it:
1, 2, 3, what're we fightin' for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
And it's 6, 7, 8, open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee, we're all gonna die!
That rhymes too.
Country Joe McDonald sez, "GIMME AN F!!!!!"
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
— God@The Tweet of God
"Nobody was struck by gunfire during this incident. The evidence in the case so far indicates Armstrong fired two rounds from a weapon,
and that seven officers fired 65 rounds from their department-issued weapons," SFPD Commander Greg McEachern told KTVU.
That works out to nine rounds per man. And that's from the people who are supposedly *TRAINED* in how to use their weapons?
Is this how the cops are now being trained to shoot? Empty the magazine and hope at least one round finds its target?
Maybe we should arm the teachers ... they couldn't do any worse. -"BB"-
Apparently SF is training its officers at the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy.
Death is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.
I’d never heard of her, before my time. Found this quote from her mother following Sandy Hook to be so utterly on point:
You know, it’s ironic that people who are irrational are expected under the law to get help on their own. There needs to be something in the law that compels a troubled person to be diagnosed by a psychiatrist. In the 1950s, we were institutionalizing people who weren’t mentally ill. You could institutionalize someone who was just unruly. We’ve gone from one extreme to the other.
— Ruth Seegrist, Decades After Sylvia Seegrist, Mentally Ill People Are Still Murdering Innocents,
The Philly Post
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
The above report by Datsun is a typical result of many police involved shootings. Too much tv cop shows, too much seal team six movies, persuade the public otherwise. Hitting a vital part of the human body at just seven yards away under the usual conditions with a hand gun is HARD! I know of one Seal (from a West Coast team) who could do it under fire with a Browning P35 consistantly at up to a hundred yards. But this was only one individual, after many THOUSANDS of bullets fired in practice and frequent continued practice. Nobody else was even close and those who knew him spoke of his skills with that pistol with awe and respect--because it is so rare.
Econoline wrote:liberty - just out of curiosity, do you consider the National Firearms Act of 1934 (which regulates—but does NOT ban—fully automatic firearms and short-barreled rifles & shotguns) to be unconstitutional? If not, why couldn't that law be amended to include all—or at least some—semiautomatic firearms?
(BTW, Karl Frederick, the NRA’s president back in 1934, said at the time, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”)
If I remember correctly the court ruled that these were not militia type weapons and for that reason they were made illegal. However, a citizen could still buy fully automatic guns with a back ground check and licensing.
Soon, I’ll post my farewell message. The end is starting to get close. There are many misconceptions about me, and before I go, to live with my ancestors on the steppes, I want to set the record straight.
Bicycle Bill wrote: San Francisco cops fire 65 shots in 15 seconds
at murder suspect in dramatic video
In San Francisco the police are trained to only shoot bad guys in the foot or leave flesh wounds on non-critical body parts. If the suspects are black, they are supposed to fire their weapons into the air and not hit any street lights or other things. They're still working on sharpening their skills. However, in this case, they were successful at not hurting themselves or any civilians so it is considered a successful police action.
My handgun has a nine inch barrel; hitting a three liter soda bottle at twenty feet takes heavy concentration; hitting the same target at a hundred feet is almost impossible for me. But with my riffle it is an easy shot. The handgun is a shot range weapon, but there are carbines that can fold up in such a way they can fit in a small carry bag. They would have a much greater accurate range than a handgun.
Soon, I’ll post my farewell message. The end is starting to get close. There are many misconceptions about me, and before I go, to live with my ancestors on the steppes, I want to set the record straight.
San Francisco cops fire 65 shots in 15 seconds
at murder suspect in dramatic video
Sadly, yet much more funny, this vid looks like target practice for the Keystone Kops who are falling all over themselves, and after all of this, the suspect was taken into custody two (2) hours later.
65 rounds of wasted ammo. They need to go back to cop camp.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
1, 2, 3, what're we fightin' for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
And it's 6, 7, 8, open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee, we're all gonna die!
That rhymes too.
Country Joe McDonald sez, "GIMME AN F!!!!!"
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Music stolen from "muskrat ramble" by Louis Armstrong.
1, 2, 3, what're we fightin' for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
And it's 6, 7, 8, open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee, we're all gonna die!
That rhymes too.
Country Joe McDonald sez, "GIMME AN F!!!!!"
[qyoutube]3W7-ngmO_p8[/youtube]
Music stolen from "muskrat ramble" by Louis Armstrong.
Yrs,
Rubato
That's not stealing; that's "ⓈⒶⓂⓅⓁⒾⓃⒼ".
The same way the riff from Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" was s⃥w⃥i⃥p⃥e⃥d⃥ ⃥ sampled by Kid Rock for "All Summer Long". -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
