A win for the good guys (guns)

posted by superman

That changes nothing I've said

You said touch some grass.  I assume you meant go outside, and I wanted you to know I’ve been out there a lot.

posted by iclfan2

Why have you never seen Clarence Thomas at an NBA game? As in — ever?

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) July 1, 2022

That’s a tirade? 

Rex is a full on looney toon at this point. I still follow because he posts JUST enough of the good, sentimental stuff that I like to see. Plus the block or charge is still there a bit. 

But its getting increasingly tougher to sift through his BS. 

...and I mostly lean his direction on non-fiscal issues politically.

posted by Laley23

Rex is a full on looney toon at this point. I still follow because he posts JUST enough of the good, sentimental stuff that I like to see. Plus the block or charge is still there a bit. 

But its getting increasingly tougher to sift through his BS. 

...and I mostly lean his direction on non-fiscal issues politically.

Rex Chapman the Kentucky basketball player?

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Rex Chapman the Kentucky basketball player?

Yes.

posted by Laley23

We were going to be at that parade. But my 1 year old daughter slept in, and her typical nap schedule didn’t align for the day. My wife was then going to take just our 3 year old son, but he wanted to play with his friend across the street. 

She is still shook up. 

And then today the zoo we go to gets closed for a situation and armed police swarmed the place (yet to be determined what actual issue was).

Damn.  Glad you weren't there. 

posted by Laley23

Rex is a full on looney toon at this point. I still follow because he posts JUST enough of the good, sentimental stuff that I like to see. Plus the block or charge is still there a bit. 

But its getting increasingly tougher to sift through his BS. 

...and I mostly lean his direction on non-fiscal issues politically.

Block or charge is amazing when he does it.  It used to be the best thing on Twitter

posted by Laley23

Yes.

What is Rex Chapman’s schtick or angle?  Last I heard of him he was getting arrested for theft. 

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

What is Rex Chapman’s schtick or angle?  Last I heard of him he was getting arrested for theft. 

He just became a trumpeter for liberals. Same with sports by brooks. They stopped being just good accounts to follow when the George Floyd murder happened (or around there) and have since gone full on looneys about race, Trump, Rs, etc. Inability to look at both sides and think for themselves. Its nauseating. 

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

What is Rex Chapman’s schtick or angle?  Last I heard of him he was getting arrested for theft. 

Just look at the "Disgusted with Progressives" thread and imagine if the main posters contributing there were left-wing, but keeping the same "everything about the other side SUCKS!" stance and posting just as often. For all intents and purposes, that's Rex.

It's a weird decision to make as far as getting Twitter clout, I must admit. Regardless of what side they take, all the people who take it on themselves to be Twitter poli-minds like him, Nick Adams, etc. pretty much exist to get ratio'd every time they tweet because they're all so fucking stupid.

not only are the uvalde police cowards, but after watching the whole video they are also liars.

How about the one guy who took the time use the hand sanitizer.

Completely fucked. 

Yeah, that was both pathetic and disgusting. If there's a police force that deserves to be marginalized and ostracized by an entire community, it's that one. Hell, the locals could probably do a better job policing themselves -- at least some of them were actually willing to go into the school.

Unarmed parents would have done better. No doubt in my mind.

posted by Laley23

Unarmed parents would have done better. No doubt in my mind.

It's pathetic, but you've already failed if you're relying on a police response. 

These people need to be prevented from entering schools.  And, in this case, it seems like there was a double point of failure with an outside door being propped open, and then failure to lock/secure the classroom doors.

posted by gut

It's pathetic, but you've already failed if you're relying on a police response. 

These people need to be prevented from entering schools.  And, in this case, it seems like there was a double point of failure with an outside door being propped open, and then failure to lock/secure the classroom doors.

Is a locked door actually stopping a AR-15 bullet? I have to imagine one shot to the lock area is blowing that up. 

Either way, when the police get there, they have to do the job they signed up for and go in and stop. Kids would've died, but from all reports, quite a few of the other kids would've been saved as they were killed in that 77 minute wait.

posted by Laley23

Is a locked door actually stopping a AR-15 bullet? I have to imagine one shot to the lock area is blowing that up.

posted by gut
I'll defer to the gun experts here, but I don't believe so.  AR-15 is a very small caliber bullet - I'm pretty sure a bunch of shots, much less one, aren't "blowing up" the lock.  There's probably at least 10 better ways to get through a locked & reinforced door more quickly and effectively.

A .223 or 5.56 round (2 AR common rounds) are not blowing a decent lock.

However, unless the school windows are made of something better than normal windows (I honestly don’t know if they typically are nowadays or not) nearly any gun will blow through a regular window, AR or not.

So either way, no matter what type of gun (unless some small .22 pea shooter hand gun) an active shooter is getting inside a school through any glass door.  

Unless, again, the glass in school doors are made out of some better glass (similar to bullet proof) and I am not aware.

I think this was mentioned in another thread, but the story about the 22 year old who stopped the mall shooting in Indiana is wild. Supposedly within 15 seconds of the shooting the guy shot 10 shots starting 40 yards away (with a pistol) and hit the gunman 8 times as he moved closer. Crazy good accuracy, and took a ton of balls.