State troopers say a police officer in New York shot and killed his son, mistaking him for an intruder.
Troopers say Parry Police Department Officer Michael Leach called 911 to report the shooting early Saturday. He was staying at the Clark Beach Motel and shot someone he believed to be an intruder. But the man turned out to be his 37-year-old son
Know your target and what lies beyond it. Of course given that this is a COP in New York, he’ll eventually get his gun and his job back for this mistake….if he didn’t have the badge he’d be skewed for life.
On the latest Car Cast, the Lotus they do the walk around is nice, but doesn’t blow my skirt up, but the crazy cars they’re talking about for various unlimited racing venues is CRAZY.
Oklahoma City police say a man has died after he was dragged by a car and then run over Sunday…Investigators say Ontiveros and his girlfriend, Maria Rodriguez, 26, were arguing in the street when Rodriguez got in a car and started to drive away. Police say Ontiveros was dragged by the car and then run over.
It seems that many of these “Car Murders” are domestic in nature. Kinda like “Gun Death”, but “Progressives” drive cars, so only “Gun Death” counts.
Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And Barack Obama’s White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 people in a mass shooting at a new Batman movie screening in suburban Denver…”We don’t want sympathy. We want action,” Dan Gross, president of the Brady campaign said Friday as President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney mourned the dead.
Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, was more emphatic than many in the early hours after the shooting. “Everyone is scared of the NRA,” he said on MSNBC. “Number one, there are some things worth losing for in politics and to be able to prevent carnage like this is worth losing for.”
Yet it’s been more than a decade since gun control advocates had a realistic hope of getting the type of legislation they seek, despite predictions that each shocking outburst of violence would lead to action.
Elliott said people should take caution when applying cases like the Friday theater shooting in Aurora to gun policy, saying initial police reports indicate Holmes may have spent months working out an elaborate plan.
“It appears this was so carefully planned at this point that laws wouldn’t have been a deterrent,” he said. “I don’t care what kind of gun laws you have, it wouldn’t have stopped it.”
Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner agreed that one incident, while tragic, should not prompt sweeping changes to gun policy.
“I don’t know that policy could have prevented this,” he said. “It appears there was a lot of planning involved.”
As I said before like a few other nationally famous criminals, this guy was a perfect mix of crazy and intelligent. Most smart people could cook up a better plot to kill more people, or cause more mayhem…but there isn’t any real GAIN in any of this, and all these famous spree killers never saw any gain except notoriety at being a monster…which is a tough sell for anybody sane. And most people who are crazy simply don’t have the faculties to plot out such an elaborate and successful plan.
Thankfully monsters like this are VERY rare, but again if he was smart enough to do what he did, getting past a few extra laws that are comparatively minor compared to say mass murder, it doesn’t seem like much of an obstacle.
This is just as bad as the Anti-D&D campaigns of the 80s, or the violent video game campaigns of the 90s. Yeah Batman did this….
There are general parallels to the Colorado shooting, “The Dark Knight” and the comic book character:
– Bruce Wayne’s drive to become Batman arose from witnessing the deaths of his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, at the hands of small-time criminal Joe Chill, who shot and killed them after they had left a movie theater.
– The Batman video game called “Arkham City” takes place in an abandoned movie theatre (The Monarch, outside of which Bruce Wayne’s parents were killed).
– In the “Dark Knight” graphic novel by Miller, the Joker slaughters the audience of a television talk show with gas.
– In the same book, a man beleaguered man shoots up a porn theater after being fired from his job, killing three people with a handgun.
– “The Dark Knight Rises” features at least two scenes where unsuspecting people are attacked in a public venue: the stock exchange and a football stadium.
You idiots are stretching. You should be ashamed….but you’re not because you’re too stupid.
Seems that the Aurora shooter used a 100 round drum mag in his attack. **UPDATE** To be clear it just says the police FOUND a drum mag, no direct word if that magazine was USED in the event.
First let’s lighten things up a bit by showing Jeff Zimba having some good clean fun with them:
Now of course they want us to be transfixed and horrified by this, because they want to make another attempt to ban magazines above a certain size.
First let’s just have a quick peek at recent shootings. Most recently we have the Tuscon shooting, 6 killed, 14 injured, and a 32 round magazine used. Less than the 12 killed and 70-some injured at the movie shooting. Still compare it with the Virginia Tech shooting with 32 killed and 23 injured….oh and all but two of the magazines that were 10-round ban-compliant magazines… of course we also have The University Texas shooting from the 60s, 16 killed 32 injured, all of them with low capacity magazines, most of the damage done by a 5-shot Remington hunting rifle.
Really the weapons and tactics don’t seem to readily point in any direction, and it seems that dumb luck factors into things. Hell the Trolly Square shooter took out nearly as many people as Loughner in Arizona, but with a low-capacity shotgun and revolver…and he was shot by an off-duty police officer (as citizens were barred from carrying in the mall).
You can ban magazines, which of course will do nothing for criminals wanting said magazines, as anything can be acquired through the black market, but even when the shooter complies with such laws (like Cho in Virginia) it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. Hell even the reaction of the people doesn’t seem to make much difference. Loughner was attacked by his intended victims and was stopped….but the Colorado and Virginia tech shooters experienced no resistance from the victims, and in this case the more heavily armed shooter got a lower body count. Dumb luck.
I thought I’d just close with the genius of this article:
A shotgun would do more damage among a tightly packed theater audience because its ammunition comes out of the weapon in a reverse funnel shape and would disperse across a wider area, according to Howard.
In a theater scenario, he said, “so many people’s heads are lined up next to each other that if you fire down these rows of people … one blast is going to kill or seriously injure 10 or 15 people, depending on a number of variables.”
AR-15 rifle: A rifle that commonly fires bullets .223 inches in diameter (**Update**Found an older version here). Originally manufactured by Colt before its patent ran out, but now also made by others. Cost: around $900 and up. Its military version is a machine gun, which allows a shooter to fire continuously by holding the trigger down. The nonmilitary AR-15 is a semi-automatic which shoots one bullet at a time, with each squeeze of the trigger. Ammunition magazines for the AR-15 commonly hold five to 15 rounds.
Crap the editor got tipped off, last night it was “.223 millimeter” which is hilariously small. Still this blurb is still almost completely fact free. M16s aren’t “Machine Guns”, $900 seems a bit steep for a stripped AR. And 5-15 round magazines? 10 round magazines became common when magazine capacities were limited to 10, many states limit hunting rifles to 5 rounds (hilariously, that limit is because the magazine of the Mauser K98 and the Springfield M1908 military rifles hold five rounds, and these rifles and variations of them were common hunting rifles back in the early 20th century when the laws were drafted) so those magazines are around now that more people are hunting with ARs (What was that antis about not coming after our hunting rifles?), but 15 round mags are a bit of an oddity, they exist, but they’re rare. Really 20 and 30 round mags were the first magazines made for this rifle.
870 Remington 12-gauge shotgun: One of the most popular shotguns in history. It can be modified to have a short or long barrel.
Or you can simply swap out various barrels….your point is?
40-caliber Glock handgun: Common weapon for police. Similar in size to other popular handguns.
And one of the more popular handguns out there….again, your point?
Carpeted walls, which are common in movie theaters would reduce the risk of ricochets, said ballistics expert Jon Nordsby. Bullets that have first passed through objects such as theater chairs might cause worse wounds. The bullets start tumbling after they first penetrate the object. A tumbling bullet will tear more flesh when it hits, he said.
First his name is Nordby, and while I respect his qualifications, I’m not 100% sure if I agree with his analysis. First carpeted acoustic walls really won’t give much more in ballistic penetration and ricochets than bare walls. The only possibility depending on the thickness of the carpeting it MIGHT limit penetration of tumbling or fragmenting rounds on the back side as the carpet stretches. There is a similar effect in human terminal ballistics where the stretchy skin on the back side of the target will often adsorb a lot of ballistic energy, so frequently in hunting and homicide the bullets are recovered under the skin on the back side of the target. Still that’s a stretch as well.
A tumbling bullet WILL do more damage than a stable bullet simply punching through targets….but a bullet tumbling IN AIR, is losing a LOT of energy BEFORE it hits the target.
