Impartial_Observer

Not many from the old days left.

I think it’s safe to say, as details come out, this young man, pulled off some Dirty Harry level stuff. Had little to no cover when the shooter started. Engaged the shooter starting at about 40 yards Continued to close the distance between him and the shooter again, with little to no cover AND way out gunned. Hit the shooter eight times out of 10 rounds fired. Cleared bystanders while engaged with the shooter. •••OPINION*** This young man, was in the right place at the right time and willing and able to do what had to be done. With NONE of the training, experience, firepower, and resources that the officers in Uvalde had. This shooting has illuminated several points central to the firearm debate in this country. Laws/policies will be ignored. The ability to defend oneself is a fundamental right that should not be infringed. Hitting an astounding 80% of shots taken, the hero fired his gun 10 times to stop the shooter. What if there were two shooters? What if he was wearing body armor? What if he only hit him two out of ten times? 10 round capacity mag laws only inhibit law abiding citizens from defending yourself. If you want a “why” this is pretty conclusive. This was over in 15 seconds. Think about that very carefully, hundreds of lives were altered/ended by an event that last 15 seconds. Imagine your 22 year old self standing in line with your girlfriend to get a cookie…….

All schools have to have asses in desks to make it work. If you’re not in high school, you are going to be targeted for recruitment.

We reached out to Simon Properties Sunday evening for a statement about the shooting. A spokesperson declined to comment, instead referring us to Greenwood Police. ALSO - WTF is a "Long-Gun Rifle"? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/17/us/indiana-greenwood-park-mall-shooting/index.html In the Greenwood mall shooting, the gunman apparently used a long-gun rifle, Ison said, though law enforcement had not immediately recovered any weapons from the scene. IO knows people who were asked to leave a Simon Property because they were carrying handguns. It should be pointed out in Indiana there is no criminal law against carrying on properties that are otherwise legal to carry, but the owners post as no firearms. They can ask you to leave or disarm, at which point you either comply or you will be cited for trespassing. I was standing in line one day at the bank, guy in front of me has a giant knife in a sheath he’s carrying about five o’clock. He keeps fingering it and he appears to be tweaking to me. I keep moving to my left, then right to make sure I had a clean shot if he went for the knife. Guy finished his business and left. Teller says you see in a bit of hurry….I told her the story, she had no clue he had the knife but she was aware of his mental state. One of the local banks I frequent is posted. Manager asked me one day if I saw the sign, to which I replied: “yep, it clearly states no Berettas, and I lifted my shirt and said as you can see, I’m clearly not carrying a Beretta. He just laughed and went about his business.

National media typically operates: A) Shooter uses a handgun, no real national attention. B) Shooter uses a modern semi-auto rifle, but is stopped by a good guy with a gun, will usually warrant a little national attention, just enough to let the folks know the shooter used an “assault” rifle. C) Shooter uses a modern semi-auto rifle and it plays out, CNN will be camped in the parking lot with round the clock coverage, pontificating, and live coverage of all the memorials.

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One of the studies listed in what I read I felt like did a great job of examining the cradle to grave emissions per vehicle, all the way thru the supply chain. Lithium is fairly expensive (expense in this context is relating to Co2 production associated with manufacturing) to mine but it produces HUGE Co2 emissions in it’s processing. According to this study, and I forget the total “cost” of each vehicle in terms of Co2 emissions. But they figured a normal car’s lifespan is about 180K miles. The electric car would have to go over 400K before is becomes a net winner in emissions over gas vehicles. The bottom line all those people who keep touting “zero emissions”, they’re lying to you, and they’ve got their hand in your pocket the whole time they’re doing it. Hybrid is the now, let’s focus our short term THERE!

No argument from me, as I’ve stated many times electric offers more speed, faster acceleration, more torque, etc, but it doesn’t sound like this:

You do you Scooter.

Find them yourself, believe I made them up, whatever, I don’t care. Then again, don’t batteries have a propensity for catching on fire if they’re damaged?

Which begs the question, why did Honda opt to pretend leave Formula 1 citing it’s commitment to renewable energy propulsion.

Hybrid technology is the now. Battery technology is the future. The dirty little secret is the greenies can’t get past is the fact that “green” vehicles produce more Co2 in the manufacturing process than gas vehicles will produce over their lifetime. Hybrid tech gives us some of the benefits of battery, sans the huge amount of Co2 produced in manufacturing massive fuel cells. Coupled with savings in conventional fuels and emissions.

It makes perfect sense really…..I mean when you thing about it.

This surprises anyone how?

Majority of west coast ports are in one state, including the two largest in LA and Long Beach. Ports on the east coast are in multiple states. Not hard to understand why we always hear about how terrible the ports are on the west coast. There’s competition on the east coast and there’s not on the west coast. I’m sure that and the fact that the vast majority of Asian imports come thur west coast ports purely from logistics standpoint.

I bet you’re a load of fun at parties.

I understand, given all things equal…. We’re only about 30 months from a new governor……

Taxing structure is entertaining, look it up. Michigan is a LOT more business friendly. Hopefully Ohio and Kentucky will be as well.

Buying weed in Illinois is for suckers!

What Julio said. I don’t believe the year rolls over until week 1. Contact the office and let them know, I had a similar issue a couple of years back.

Apparently someone thinks IO has powers he doesn’t posses.

That day was my first trip to ND Stadium, I was row 12, about 45 yard line behind the BC bench. I remember it like yesterday. I thought it would be an ND miracle finish, unfortunately BC had the answer all day.

I assure you, if I’m ever in the area….. I was like 40/41 before I made it to all the remaining “famous” local bars.

Exactly the reason IO prefers the dive bar off the beatin path.