Now this is just friggen’ sad. And expensive.
The long beam of the law
THE NSW Police Force will spend about $2 million on a virtual reality shooting range as senior officers blame a lack of training for recruits being frightened of firearms.
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Senior police say the lack of access to shooting ranges has resulted in some younger officers receiving so little practice that they are scared of using their guns.
Officers also claim their annual day-long firearms requalification training is inadequate, leaving them unprepared to use their weapons in dangerous situations.
Here’s my little suggestion to help the world: unless you show up for police training with basic familiarity with firearms and firearm safety… you don’t get the training. The result might well be a dearth of new cops. Well, there are two responses to that:
1) If your country has done such a good job of eliminating firearms that *cops* are afraid of ’em… then, gosh, your country must be pretty close to crime free (guns being, of course, the Source Of All Crime In The World), and thus you don’t need more cops. Well done. Go grab a low-calorie beer at the nearest smoke-free drinking establishment.
2) Your country has turned into a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of robed sissies. Man up and re-introduce a proper firearms culture into your county. People *like* loud noises, things exploding and excitement. If you don’t give them a proper outlet – such as family trips to the gun range or hunting – they’ll come up with an improper outlet, such as robbery, murder or socialism (but I repeat myself).
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You know what the whole key to it is, don’t you, mate?
Down Down-Under ways real men settle things with fists or knives, not some little “Brucie” gun.
Only a Sheila would use a thing like that on a attacker, and then only if she couldn’t drive ‘er knee in his groin like a PO’d emu.
> Down Down-Under ways real men settle things with fists or knives,
You would do well to doa Google search on Australia Knife Laws. They are following Britain down the path of banning anything more dangerous than a plastic spork.
See, for example:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/23/2454014.htm?section=australia
“Someone in possession of a knife in New South Wales is dealt with by infringement notice with a maximum penalty of $550,” he said.
“Go to Victoria, the penalty is in the thousands and you risk a year in jail.
Nuckin’ futs.
That’s why the smart boys in the fight go at each other with male platypus’… poisonous rear claws extended… so as to give themselves “plausible deniability” in regards into who is dead and how that happened.
Frankly, all past romance gone, having even a full-auto weapon in your hands isn’t going to count for much once the attack helicopters and main battle tanks show up to take away your rights.
For home defense, may I suggest a whole new way of doing things?
Say, changing your lawn irrigation system so that you can instantly switch it from shooting out water to shooting out gasoline when needed, and turn your entire lawn into a lethal inferno?
Also, simply establishing a means of using gas-tight doors inside of your house to isolate any part of it where a intruder may be, and flooding that area with helium gas to suffocate them could be most effective.
Not only is any sort of a autopsy going to have a very hard time figuring out why someone died via a inert gas, but their increasingly high-pitched pleas to let them loose as they die will be honey to your ears.
Guns?
Guns are for the unimaginative.
Don’t even get me started on the limitless possibilities of what cone shells, canes with venomous snakes concealed within them, and masers can offer us.
> Frankly, all past romance gone, having even a full-auto weapon in your hands isn’t going to count for much once the attack helicopters and main battle tanks show up to take away your rights.
I’ve often found this arguement from the Left amusing. Why? Because the people who say I might as well give up my firearms because they won’t do dick against a main battle tank are the same ones who proudly and loudly yammer on about how a buch of Iraqis, armed with nothing but righteous indignation, are able to stymie the entire US military. Which is it?
In any event, I doubt the US military is going to be doing much stomping on the public. Now, Obama’s “Civilian Defence Corps” brownshirts, on the other hand…
BTW, a few weeks back I managed to come up with the nastiest, most lethal concept for a weapon I have ever conceived of.
This thing’s a gem.. the very “Fleur De Mal” that I have always dreamed of like my little horn-headed, barb-tailed, and bat-winged son.
Remember how Francis Gary Powers descended into the Soviet Union with that coin modified so that you could pull that tiny drill bit out of it, that killed the dog the Soviets tried it on in around ten seconds?
What that was was the CIA follow-up to the “L Pill” (using potassium cyanide) that instead of letting a person die in around a minute’s time in great pain, used a type of “shellfish toxin” that caused near instant death with its only symptoms being a feeling of dry lips and a tingling in one’s fingers for a few seconds before one keeled over.
Now, _here’s_ what we want to do.
We take the flechette concept of numerous small darts in a single projectile… something like a 12-gauge shotgun projectile with around 20 flechettes in it; turn each of those into a little dart with something like a drill bit on its front end full off shellfish toxin, and shoot them out of a rotary gun.
The wider they go out of the barrel the better… because getting hit with even one of those little darts anywhere in your body is going to be fatal in no time flat.
Think of the enemy loss rate you could accomplish with something like that.
It would be fully possible for a two-man crew with a full-auto rotary gun like that to kill over 1,000 enemy troops attacking them in around ten seconds time.
Yeah but then they go and make rules. How about buckshot marinaded in Poison Arrow Frog venom? Or even better how about buckshot marinaded in Brown Recluse venom or covered with flesh-eating bacteria? Actually now that I think of it a capped hollow-point (to contain the goodness) filled with Brown Recluse venom would be pretty awesome too.
Poisoned weapons are illegal… both civilian and military.
Yeah, I know. Was just thinking “outside the box”. Practical and legal issues weren’t in it. 😉
There’s somethign to be said for the elegant simplicity of a firearm for home defense. While the idea of having deadfall traps that drop burgalrs into dungeons filled with nothing but pure nitrogen may sound amusing, the fact is that, beyond the legal problems (including, of course, the burglar’s family likely suing you for loss of income), there’s the headache of dealing with the body. Feh. In contrast, in the dead of night, as the burglar is raoming your home in near silence, the sound of a small metallic “click” as a switch goes from “safe” to “fire” will cause most burglars to self-remove from your premises.
If that doesn’t work, turn on your laser. Not one of those sad little red lasers, but one of those one-watt green lasers. Point it anywhere near his face, and he’s got serious eye trouble. Point it at his eyes for any length of time at all, and he’ll be permanently blinded. And how will he go about explaining *that*?
And then he’ll turn around and sue the pants off you for his new-found disability. >:^[ Sad thing is in this day and age he’d win.
> he’ll turn around and sue the pants off you…
Only if he can identify you. A bit difficult for a blind man to do, especially if he’s not clear on where things happened in the first place (which can happen when you bop him upside the head, stuff him into the trunk of your car and drop him off somewhere… else).
LOL! Good thinkin’
The Brown Recluse venom wouldn’t be all that effective anyway; recent findings suggest it only has a effect on you the _second_ time you get bit by one, as what’s happening is a overreaction by your body in releasing antibodies it made after the first time you were bitten by one.
Want a really good poison, use the stuff that the Australian Box Jellyfish Chironex fleckeri makes; that’s considered one of the most lethal venoms by weight of any animal on Earth, and it’s very fast acting as well.
As an added bonus, the venom is extremely painful, so your opponents may die screaming, which will have a really bad morale effect on the enemy forces.