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Meh you're lucky I was even close. I'm so bad with remembering names it's not even funny.

That teen must have been screaming loud enough to be heard over the gatling

I remember when we tested the GAU 19 50 cal gatling on my Hawk. Left button stamped above it had "God" the right hand button had "Better then God". Firsttime the weapons were locked forward and fired. It blew the pilot and copilot doors off from the muzzle blast. Was not fun...not fun at all

 CT GAMER wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
Hollywood does glamorize an assualt rifle at times

If you want to look cool, take this:

Isee your pistol and raise you this::



What every sixteen year old girls wants for her birthday...

Thats just how Texas women break up with their boyfriends.

 Frazzled wrote:

 CT GAMER wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
Hollywood does glamorize an assualt rifle at times

If you want to look cool, take this:

Isee your pistol and raise you this::



What every sixteen year old girls wants for her birthday...

Thats just how Texas women break up with their boyfriends.

They have to use something to get through the legendary Texas ego.

Thats why we have giant vehicles, so we can hide behind them when the wimminz get a little cranky.

Out of curiosity what was this guy doing that provoked a bystander to fire 4 shots at his head? The article mentions no weapon and only says that he was on top of the policeman.Going by that story It seems to me that there was plenty of opportunity to use non lethal methods first.

Sorry to interupt your gun porn.

The article in the thread is quite brief, maybe there was more to it (choking the sh## out of him or something).

Oh, and so I can both answer his question, and add to the gun porn...

Fisher-paykel present...



For all your plasticy needs. And I know its the old one, but still.

 motyak wrote:
The article in the thread is quite brief, maybe there was more to it (choking the sh## out of him or something)

Quite possible but unless he dead man was using a weapon then I see no reason to have shot him.

Yeah, but if he was trying to kill the copper, who knows what would have gone through the shooter's head? We'd need a seance with an astropath to relive the scene and see what really went on to a T. A powerful one would also let us feel their thoughts and what not.

Palindrome wrote:
Out of curiosity what was this guy doing that provoked a bystander to fire 4 shots at his head? The article mentions no weapon and only says that he was on top of the policeman.Going by that story It seems to me that there was plenty of opportunity to use non lethal methods first.

Sorry to interupt your gun porn.

Reading fail on your part, I'm afraid.

Fact 1: Only 1 shot at his head. The others were to his torso.
Fact 2: The officer called for help.
Fact 3: The officer had already shot the man once, being in fear for his own life.
Fact 4: The man had the officer down on the ground. He was either bigger, stronger, or otherwise had an advantage over the officer.

Assumption 1: One could presume that they were scuffling over the officer's gun or he was choking the officer.

But it's OK. You can turn this into another anti-gun thread if you want.

 Frazzled wrote:
Thats why we have giant vehicles, so we can hide behind them when the wimminz get a little cranky.

If my gun can't punch through an engine block, then why carry it at all?

 kronk wrote:


Reading fail on your part, I'm afraid.

Fact 1: Only 1 shot at his head. The others were to his torso.
Fact 2: The officer called for help.
Fact 3: The officer had already shot the man once, being in fear for his own life.
Fact 4: The man had the officer down on the ground. He was either bigger, stronger, or otherwise had an advantage over the officer.

Assumption 1: One could presume that they were scuffling over the officer's gun or he was choking the officer.

But it's OK. You can turn this into another anti-gun thread if you want.

Only a slight reading comprehension fail I'm afraid. Facts 2-4 don't automatically mean that lethal force was required and fact 1 just means that the guy probably wasn't that good a shot.

Well the purpose of this thread is abundantly clear, I may as well provide at least a small counter balance.

Well, considering the DA and the police cleared it as a justifiable shooting it was an acceptable level of force.

 kronk wrote:

Palindrome wrote:
Out of curiosity what was this guy doing that provoked a bystander to fire 4 shots at his head? The article mentions no weapon and only says that he was on top of the policeman.Going by that story It seems to me that there was plenty of opportunity to use non lethal methods first.

Sorry to interupt your gun porn.

Reading fail on your part, I'm afraid.

Fact 1: Only 1 shot at his head. The others were to his torso.
Fact 2: The officer called for help.
Fact 3: The officer had already shot the man once, being in fear for his own life.
Fact 4: The man had the officer down on the ground. He was either bigger, stronger, or otherwise had an advantage over the officer.

Assumption 1: One could presume that they were scuffling over the officer's gun or he was choking the officer.

But it's OK. You can turn this into another anti-gun thread if you want.

ooooooor, since he took 5 shots to the torso and only went down when he was shot in the head, we are dealing with another zed outbreak. Guy was infected, and just happened to turn right then.

 Jihadin wrote:
Make sure your trained to operate, maintain, and deployment of your particular choice of LMG

I miss my SAW.

 Bromsy wrote:

ooooooor, since he took 5 shots to the torso and only went down when he was shot in the head, we are dealing with another zed outbreak. Guy was infected, and just happened to turn right then.

This is the part the gumment is trying to hide, but we know. WE KNOW!

 aosol wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Thats why we have giant vehicles, so we can hide behind them when the wimminz get a little cranky.

If my gun can't punch through an engine block, then why carry it at all?

Well there's cover, and then there's concealment...

Don't forget your feel-no-pain save, that guy passed a lot of his before going down.

 d-usa wrote:
Don't forget your feel-no-pain save, that guy passed a lot of his before going down.

Dude... I'm supposed to be working!

I LOL'ed really loud.

Yeah, let's turn this thread anti-gun The man who attacked the policeman could have been an average joe who is fighting police corruption. The officer he attacked was a mafia boss in the area, moonlighting as a traffic cop. The officer also killed his attacker's goldfish, thus giving him another reason for revenge. Let's keep this story rolling!

I've said it before, for every citizen who stops a crime, another citizen ends up shooting an innocent bystander or taking out an ice cream van, so I'm yet to be convinced about people walking around with weapons on the streets.

 kronk wrote:

 Bromsy wrote:

ooooooor, since he took 5 shots to the torso and only went down when he was shot in the head, we are dealing with another zed outbreak. Guy was infected, and just happened to turn right then.

This is the part the gumment is trying to hide, but we know. WE KNOW!

I was planning on saying the same thing: took a bullet to the torso from the cop, kept attacking, and kept going after the cop after taking FOUR MORE bullets to body. A headshot is required to kill him. It's here people. The apocalypse...it comes...

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Yeah, let's turn this thread anti-gun The man who attacked the policeman could have been an average joe who is fighting police corruption. The officer he attacked was a mafia boss in the area, moonlighting as a traffic cop. The officer also killed his attacker's goldfish, thus giving him another reason for revenge. Let's keep this story rolling!

I've said it before, for every citizen who stops a crime, another citizen ends up shooting an innocent bystander or taking out an ice cream van, so I'm yet to be convinced about people walking around with weapons on the streets.

Shooting innocent bystanders is more of an NYPD thing this month.

But since you are in the UK you don't have to worry about people walking around with weapons, safe as houses there my friend.

Yeah, in England you just have to worry about getting beaten up and shanked by some muggers. Cause you know, they know you won't have a gun...

And they might have a gun

You can't have guns in the UK, that's against the law! Criminals would never dare break the law.

 AustonT wrote:
You can't have guns in the UK, that's against the law! Criminals would never dare break the law.

I hear that in the UK criminals are polite and call you a cab to take you to the hospital after they are done mugging you.

Or if it chav's they might dance for you wile waiting on a cab to take you to the hospital

 d-usa wrote:

 AustonT wrote:
You can't have guns in the UK, that's against the law! Criminals would never dare break the law.

I hear that in the UK criminals are polite and call you a cab to take you to the hospital after they are done mugging you.

I heard the same thing!

If there's one thing that gets my goat about America, its the assumption that the UK = England! But you guys already know that and are trying to wind me up, ain't that so?

When Matty is in the UK, do you think he worries about getting mugged? I doubt it?

Anyway, it's not the muggers you worry about in the UK, it's the TV licence guy!!

Anyway, drop in sometime for a holiday, it's not that bad

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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
If there's one thing that gets my goat about America, its the assumption that the UK = England! But you guys already know that and are trying to wind me up, ain't that so?

When Matty is in the UK, do you think he worries about getting mugged? I doubt it?

Anyway, it's not the muggers you worry about in the UK, it's the TV licence guy!!

Anyway, drop in sometime for a holiday, it's not that bad

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http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/britain.html
Just had to figure out what you were referencing...

And TV licence guy? (maybe that's why my mum brings her laptop full of saved shows to her trip to UK??!?!)

Any good place for coffee?