I think in this case, having armed people in the audience would have been a good thing, to tell the truth. if that lady would have had a gun instead of a purse, would things have gone down the same way?
you mean it would have gone down with no injuries other than the shooter?
the way it already went down?
Someone would have done that quick draw thing from the movies and shot the gun out of his hand before he could pull the trigger.
Then the marshal would have rode up on his horse and took the man to the pokey.
And some saloon ladies in corsets would have been standing around, just to pretty things up a bit.
A miracle? How do you know he was even intending to kill anyone? I certainly don't know he wasn't just a terrible shot, but it's also possible his intent all along was to just die what he saw as a noble death as a martyr. Dude wasn't right in the head, so it's funny that people are assuming things shouldn't have gone down the way they did. In short, arguing about how things would have gone if everyone had been armed is stupid and futile.
I don't mean like, an actually deific miraculous occurrence, I just mean that when you are 5 feet away from someone and you point a gun at them and you fire, even if you for some crazy reason don't mean to kill them, and you fire multiple times, for them to not get hit is a statistical wonder. To spray fire that close and not hit anyone is just crazy lucky.
Wait, now you're saying that small arms fire spreads more at close range? Buh? I'm really confused by what you're saying. If he for some reason didn't actually intend to kill anyone, then shooting from close range would make it easier for him to intentionally miss.
I am saying that, if you crack off multiple shots at close range, you are going to spread your fire in a small area, just because of the way the recoil affects your arm. With people grouped up the way they were, even someone trying to miss is pretty lucky if all the shots do in fact miss, unless they are just a great marksman.
Poor people have much better weaponry. You'd be a fool to roll through town with a a weapon like that and think you'd last after firing one round. You'd be dead before you got to use the ramrod.
Poor people have much better weaponry. You'd be a fool to roll through town with a a weapon like that and think you'd last after firing one round. You'd be dead before you got to use the ramrod.
That's why you have five muskets and a clever little brown person to carry/reload them for you
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Jacques L'HommeBAH! He was a rank amateur compared to, DR. COLOSSUS!Registered Userregular
Poor people have much better weaponry. You'd be a fool to roll through town with a a weapon like that and think you'd last after firing one round. You'd be dead before you got to use the ramrod.
I dunno, dude could just poke out of his limo's sunroof, pop off the shot, and peel out of there.
Poor people have much better weaponry. You'd be a fool to roll through town with a a weapon like that and think you'd last after firing one round. You'd be dead before you got to use the ramrod.
I dunno, dude could just poke out of his limo's sunroof, pop off the shot, and peel out of there.
It'd be like inner city skeet shooting.
A person from the inner city might take skeet shooting in a totally different direction, though.
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"imagine how many mexicans i can shoot with this thing!"
Now I imagine him as that governor from Machete
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And some saloon ladies in corsets would have been standing around, just to pretty things up a bit.
but yeah, that guy was waving his gun around for a while and leveled it at the superintendent.
No one but me should have guns.
Except me
rich people~!
just go around, shooting people in the toe and killing them.
Chris Rock
Fixed for all the nights I spent raging at CS...
Ok, but I get that alien sniper rifle from Perfect Dark. I'll shoot your ass through a building before you get close enough to use your gun.
I was a Goldeneye devotee, I never really took a liking to Perfect Dark.
i'm not sure about the numbers on this, but i can't recall the last time a millionaire went into somewhere and just shot up the place
t Tam: absolutely! :^:
of course you can't. rich people have others do that for them
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That's why you have five muskets and a clever little brown person to carry/reload them for you
I dunno, dude could just poke out of his limo's sunroof, pop off the shot, and peel out of there.
It'd be like inner city skeet shooting.
A person from the inner city might take skeet shooting in a totally different direction, though.
forum raids are hella banned
Now I imagine him as that governor from Machete
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuX-nFmL0II
Isn't one of those two cunts either side of Cheney the guy he shot in the face?
using the weapons of our tea party forefathers