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and im not sure i want to get bone spurs from a 200 pound pull bow
Every gun is single shot.
All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
Ha! Maybe your guns.
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I want my Contra Spread-gun dangit.
If it's using a mag-lock security system like the ones we have at work, it's not that the exits locked themselves, it's that they stop responding to unlock requests/REXs.
If we're obligated to have a weapon, might as well get some exercise out of it.
All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
So good! It's a bit silly hard, and I'm slightly annoyed that everything can't definitely be parried/rolled out of all the time, but it's so cool. I killed a Drake! Then got pounded to paste over and over by some giant knights.
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OH GOD WHY DID IT HAPPEN TO MEEEEEEEEE
Well I think there are politicians on either side of the gun control debate who try to use every tragedy as a political football to advance their position.
But yeah, telling people "shit like this happens because you are terrible parents to your children or because your children are terrible people to other children" doesn't resonate with viewers
I started thinking about this again the other day - the case of that poor kid who killed himself after his room mate outed him was in the news - I think the room mate was either sentenced or it's gone to trial? I dunno. I thought about it though, and it made me so god damn mad. Like, what is it that seperates that kid from killing himself and another from getting a gun and hurting others? It all seems steeped in the same problem that there are plenty of people in the world like the room mate that are absolute miserable shitheels and deserve no sympathy
Usually it means the teachers secure the doors via lock. It's possible to rig an access control system to do that but it would be expensive and out of most schools budgets. You'd need a ton of door controllers, electronic strikes and work on the doors themselves. There are a couple of alternate ways to wire that but they are on a sliding scale of acceptability to a Fire Marshal.
The theory behind it is that by getting all of the students into classrooms you reduce confusion. And it provides a degree of protection. Shooting out a lock doesn't work in real life like it does in the movies. Shooting a lock just means you're likely to jam it. So you make it harder for a shooter to get at the majority of the students. But it does suck to be you if you were in the bathroom when the lockdown happens.
But I like that guy!
Taking from law abiding citizens does not fix this problem.
There's no difference between that and a magazine fed weapon, aside from how and how fast it's reloaded. Every gun is single shot.
All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
shits hilarious, takes like a 0.6 cartridge
doesnt work any more tho
Do I have to whip out the Stephen Fry Typokinetic?
The unfortunate thing is that people like the shitheel roommate are themselves a product of their environment and what needs to happen is coming together as a society to help such individuals become more mindful of their fellow human beings.
anything that doesn't look like you can parry it can't be parried, and everything can be rolled out of - unless you're too close, and it's got a long reach. in that case, your only recourse is to block, and everything can be blocked (though its effectiveness of course varies depending on your shield's stats).
blocking sometimes doesn't work if the attack is so long that it in fact strikes you at such an angle that it's more behind you than in front. this doesn't mean it's unblockable, it just means that you would have to turn to face the attack (which means releasing lock on), I'm pretty sure. very rare though.
That makes more sense. The incident happened at 7:38 in the morning, before classes but I guess teachers would still be in their classrooms.
it doesnt matter... but im judging you
JUDGING YOU
That would be what we call "a difference."
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it was 3 lives and 3 continues, right?
All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
I watched James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd)'s memories of Contra video. He literally beat Contra before breakfast. That was awesome.
Metalstorm disagrees!
Um, kinda. First you'd never see a school deploy maglocks for every classroom door. That's way too fucking expensive. And a maglock system doesn't need to be configured for that. For a school, you'd likely have the maglocks off during the day and simply turn them on a scheduled at night. Or you set up a pair of REXs, one tied to a push button and one to a motion detector. And the big problem with an access control based locked down is that pulling the fire alarm will disable it.
we're due for another one anyway
That would be 12 lives.
You are just going to continue to say a term means what you think it means instead of the definition that was posted in this very quote tree?
Why?
Absolutely. I think I've spent this whole vignette saying that every sensible 2nd Amendment scholar and lawyer says there should be some restriction on the 2nd, just as there is with all the freedoms listed in the 1st. I even offered to dig up a paper describing exactly the sort of restrictions a supporter of Heller and the incorporation of the 2nd thinks is reasonable.
"Every gun is single shot" is just avant garde punctuation.
"single shot" means that you can only load one shot at a time. you can only put one bullet or ball or what have you in the weapon. like, the term exists for a reason. it's not a made up term, or a fiction.
You say so many intelligent and well informed things that I completely agree with.
so many.
I deal with lockdown stuff regularly. Most of the systems I work with are based in schools and lockdown doesn't make me super comfortable. But no one has come up with a better solution and lockdown provides some protection.