Police say a cow fell through the roof of a small house in southeastern Brazil killing a man and narrowly missing his wife….He said the cow apparently was grazing on a small hill above Souza’s home.
Good thing Brazil has VERY strict gun laws…otherwise the cow might have been armed….
Really strange story!
Climate Change causes violence!!
A new study connects rising world temperatures with aggressive acts of violence and even war — but experts in the causes of war gave the report a chilly reception.
For the paper, researchers analyzed 60 studies on historic empire collapses, recent wars, violent crime rates in the United States, lab simulations that tested police decisions on when to shoot and even cases where pitchers threw deliberately at batters in baseball. They found a common thread over centuries: Extreme weather — very hot or dry — means more violence.
The authors say the results show strong evidence that climate can promote conflict.
Wow, these guys need to start growing long beards, wearing robes, and carrying hand-painted signs!
H/T Mrs. Weer’d
First let’s start with my old post on Shotgun Ballistics. Go read it over if you haven’t or don’t remember what we covered, I’m not going to re-has much from that one.
In the last post I got set off by Jeff Quinn who’s a super nice guy who knows his guns. Now its Roy Huntington who I’ve also met and is a super nice guy who owns his guns.
But again Roy’s talking about using bird shot defensively in shotguns.
My big issue with this video is Roy shows a paper target getting chewed up by birdshot, and looking at it as if that’s relevant data. This WOULD be relevant if your attacker is made of paper and cardboard. They aren’t, they’re made of flesh and blood, and the stuff that incapacitates a target is deep inside the body. A great way to think about it is to think about burn victims or people in motorcycle accidents with road rash. The damage to the surface tissue is severe, and these wounds are not always survivable, but the danger is with things like infection, not with immediate incapacitation. This is the basis for the FBI Performance Standards. The FBI recommends officers to use ammo that penetrates calibrated ballistics gelatin consistently between 12 and 14″ More penetration than that you run the risk of the round not delivering all its ballistic energy to the target, less than that, the wound may be lethal, but not cause an incapacitating injury.
OK let’s look at some data from the great Brass Fetcher. First Shotguns!
The buckshot loads are easily getting the 14″ of penetration, while the birdshot loads aren’t even halfway there.
Look at the “Diminutive” 9x19mm! Those loads all look fine, with a few being a little on the light side. When you look at .380 Auto, and .32 ACP things get a little clearer.
Now the aforementioned “Rathole” effect does have SOME legitimacy, as the birdshot pellets will not be spread far enough to all hit unique locations in a home defense scenario which should be inside of 15 yards. Still you need to start looking at probability and how much gambling you want to do with your life. Birdshot pellets are small, and any individual isn’t going to likely stop an attacker, even when you factor in dozens of hits, you’re still multiplying by a very small number. Still if two pellets hit one-after-another then there is a good chance the 2nd pellet will compound the wound channel of the first. There’s even a probability of a third round hitting the EXACT same spot when we’re dealing with shot clouds so dense. Still its optimistic to assume 3 hits on one point will amount to 3 times the wound channel, even then we’re JUST getting into the FBI minimum. Further the chance that this event will ALSO happen in a location over a vital organ or vascular structure is really getting into a LOT more probability than I’d personally put my life on the line for.
I will re-post the Box O Truth penetration test and this quote:
But doesn’t 00 Buck penetrate too much in interior walls to be a “safe” load in a home?
Yes, it does penetrate a lot. But any load that is going to be effective will need to penetrate walls to have enough power to penetrate bad guys. If our only concern was to be sure we didn’t penetrate walls, we would use BB guns. However, BB guns will not stop bad guys.
When it comes to finding ammo that WILL meet the FBI 12″ standard for wound penetration but WON’T penetrate conventional building materials, it just doesn’t exist. I wish it did, but frankly it doesn’t.
We just need to heed Rule #4 if we ever need to defend our lives. Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it.
When it comes to shotgun loads, it really doesn’t need to be that picky. If you use #4 buckshot or if you use #000, you need to be able to get those pellets onto your target and then be able to follow up with more shots if needed. Just don’t make the mistake that birdshot is a good idea for home defense. You may still end up killing your attacker….but not necessarily BEFORE they end up doing whatever horrible thing they had planned for you.
Be safe out there!
Wooo Man that’s a fish!
A group of Massachusetts men fishing with a captain from the reality show “Wicked Tuna” had a hunch they were going to catch something big, but they had no idea they would be reeling in a 920-pound bluefin tuna….According to the newspaper, the 9-foot tuna is the largest one to come into Gloucester Harbor this year. It took the men nearly three hours to reel the massive fish onto Leonowert’s boat, the Huntress, which is featured on the National Geographic television show.
MAN what a score!
Hey, but cars are NOTHING like guns, because guns are different!
The 16-year-old driver in an accident that left four dead last month had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said at a news conference Tuesday.
Now because people were killed he will likely face some very serious charges. Still if he had simply been pulled over for erratic driving, he would eventually get his driver’s license restored.
Now imagine if a drunk is hauled off to the drunk tank of the local PD to sober up, and on that drunk was discovered a CCW permit and a firearm. Now a simple “operating under the influence” (which is generous, as I only “Operate” my 1911 when I holster it in the morning, and tuck it into the safe at night..the rest of the time it does nothing but sit in a holster) will result in felony charges, and all rights revoked for LIFE!
Is there any doubt why people with CCW permits commit so few crimes compared to the general public, or than Police officers who also have rights restored under all but the most egregious circumstances?
H/t Bob
Somebody greased the baffles of the can! LOOKIT the smoke!
Take Away…cut the race bullshit!
I’m sick of it. I’m “White”, but really when I think of my race I think of the vary different people who came together to make me. People from Germany, England, France, and Scotland. When LaWeer’da gets added into the mix it gets even longer. Hell she’ll be part Italian which I think makes her “Colored” 🙂
Inter-racial marriage, and even old conflations of race like the former underclass of Irish, Italians, and French Canadians being lumped in with the former WASP overclass as just “White” has really ended race as anything but a crutch.
Hell it wasn’t long when America made a big deal about electing a Catholic. (also Kennedy was the ONLY Catholic to be elected President….not that ANYBODY cares anymore)
Get over yourself, there is no such thing as race anymore.
