I mean… people say this. But a head shot with normal ammunition would be the only way to ensure a kill on a target that could potentially be wearing body armor.
I don’t condone what he did, violence of this kind is never the answer. But speaking on the planning of a good marksman I would bet with this setup they would have gone for a head shot. A good marksman would never be in this situation though…
“Crooks was well within that range when he opened fire on Trump Saturday from about 135 meters (147 yards) from where Trump was speaking”
Still a long shot but not as bad as 400 yards. 400 yards with iron sights would be almost impossible. 147 would still be hard but not impossible with practice. Not that this dude has practice and a scope would be cheap and infinitely easier.
Are rifle teams common in high schools? I mean I know that sport shooting is a thing, but I never heard of a high school with a rifle team. I went to high school in WA state.
I wish Americans would stop going to Russia (or at least stop going to Russia and attracting attention) so that the USA can stop trading prisoners for them. That way Viktor Bout would still be locked up, and who knows what wonderful human being will go free in exchange for this guy.
(And I do have sympathy for Brittney Griner but maybe Russia would stop doing this sort of thing if the USA didn’t cooperate.)
Insurance companies are legally locked in to having to pay out 85% of what they bring in back out to their customers, and they try to just barely hit that mark every single year. If you’ve ever gotten a little “customer appreciation” check mailed back to you from your insurer that 85% law is the real reason. It means they didn’t pay out quite enough.
So that being said, insurance companies charge higher rates in areas where the most claims happen. They aren’t making more money when they do this. They’re still capped at making their 15%.
So for an insurance company there’s three options.
-Charge everyone everywhere the same, so people in low claim areas are forced to pay higher prices, which means they’ll try getting insurance elsewhere.
Charge more in areas where claims payouts are highest. Which seems like it would be fair.
-Stop offering insurance at all in areas with higher risk. Which means that people living in certain places may end up not being able to find an insurer.
The article is trying to present this as a race issue, and that’s just total bullshit. It’s just based on likelihood of cars to get damaged in the area you live at. No one here who’s been to Detroit will argue that your car is just as safe there as it is everywhere else. The crime, and poor driving habits, and likelihood of a person walking out in front of your vehicle are all higher than elsewhere.
Theres a picture in the article, and it’s terrifying. Maybe stop stringing powerlines along rickety wooden poles? That’s something I’d expect in a random southeast Asian village, not a first world country.
Burying thousands of miles of utility lines is prohibitively expensive. In some places, like parts of Florida, you can’t bury anything because you’ll immediately be underwater.
In some places, like parts of Florida, you can’t bury anything because you’ll immediately be underwater.
Greeting from the Netherlands, currently 5 meters below sealevel and all our powerlines except for (some of) the main network ones are underground, many of them sitting pretty below groundwater level. That’s actually a bonus, because it helps keep them cool. If they’re above groundwater level, you need to make sure they can lose their heat by using specially graded sand.
It might be expensive, but this method demonstrably gets people killed. If Europe can manage to bury powerlines for small villages, why can’t the largest cities in the US?
if that’s what a southeast Asian village looks like in your mind
You managed to pick a site that has the worst poles in the largest city. Many streets look like this: maps.app.goo.gl/7oUxKAx5hqX3kwNF7
My gut tells me it’s definitely an economic factor. I think it’s because the netherlands has towns that are close together, so burying 1 km of electrical cable could potentially serve more people. In texas, possibly, a km of electrical cable will go from the road to someone’s house
It’s in the numbers too. The netherlands, as a whole, has a population density of 424/km2. Texas has about 1/10th that, at 42.9/km2.
isn’t even trying to keep an innocent behind bars already a type of kidnapping attempt and every second of delay that it caused an actual act of kidnapping?
During a court hearing Friday, Judge Ryan Horsman said that if Hemme wasn’t released within hours, Bailey himself would have to appear in court Tuesday morning. He threatened to hold the attorney general’s office in contempt.
Props to the judge tho, 'cause threatening Bailey with contempt charges could have landed him in jail (for a bit anyways).
“See my big gavel here? If you don’t release her immediately this gavel will crash into your thick, stupid skull … with force.”
Honestly, there should still be an inquest or something where the guy is brought in and must explain wtf he was thinking or trying to accomplish by fighting her release. And if he doesn’t have a satisfying answer, remove him from the position.
And no, I wouldn’t consider “trying to save the state taxpayers from a lawsuit for the false imprisonment” a satisfying answer.
In fact, if he can’t defend a position such that it’s reasonable to believe she was actually guilty, there should be criminal charges against him and anyone who worked with him to stop or stall the release. And I’d say this should be the case for any prosecution where it becomes just about winning a case rather than demonstrating the truth in court.
Peter Thiel, one of the top GOP funders (and likely reason for JD Vance pick) is openly gay. Of course for him the reasoning is simple: he has a lot of money and wants policies that favor people with a lot of money. I’ve known a number of rich people in my life, and many (not all) have bought into a sort of wealthy identity, thinking of wealthy people as superior to non-wealthy people, and that the ideal social structure is a rigid hierarchy where the “deserving” are rewarded with luxuries and the “inferior” working class deserves a life of cheap labor. Psychological incentives strongly encourage this, because otherwise these people would have to believe they are getting more than they deserve, and that they themselves are too weakened by a life of luxury to be as supportive of the as fortunate than they should be. Accordingly, this identity can be more powerful than something like gay identity.
What? Are you serious? To teach kids how to shoot guns. Because it’s America. Are you telling me you don’t want a bunch of hormonal teenagers with undeveloped emotional cortex’s to be handling and comfortable with guns??? Well how else are we going to shoot each other in a crowded public environment…you know the more I say this outloud the more I see your point.
Yes, kids should be taught about guns. Nothing in depth, not unless they demonstrate basic safety skills and wish to pursue the subject. But a 10-minute mandated lecture ain’t gonna get it.
Took my 8 and 11-yo shooting for the first time on Spring Break. We have a camp in the swamp so it’s a safe and calm environment, no gunshot noise, focused instruction. Predictably, their mom shat kittens.
Know what? Now they have a feel for what guns are about, and that includes lethality. Previously, their ideas all came from Hollywood. I also showed them some of mine that bear an unfortunate resemblance to toys. Speaking of…
We can teach out kids to never, ever, on pain of beating to touch a gun. But we can’t helicopter them for life. What if some idiot kid pulls out his dad’s super cool pistol to show off? “It’s all good. It’s not loaded.” or “It’s not a real gun.” First thing I taught them (behind the basic rules) was how to recognize someone being dangerous, when to get the hell away from that person.
And the cherry on top? I’ve taken the mystery away, removed the forbidden fruit. Now that they can take it or leave it, they somewhat ambivalent. My daughter likes to take a shot or three and hang out helping reload. My son loves his little .22, but no big deal if we forget it at home.
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