Super-dooper powerful Indian mystic man (dots, not feathers) claims mystical powers to kill somebody without . . . you know, doing the regular killy sorts of things.
Skeptic calls his bluff. On national television. Turns out, it was a bluff. With video.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Mumbai Police: Criticism Somewhat Mitigated Due To Budget Cuts
The police did not fire on the gunmen in the train station as I mentioned previously.
Now Uncle relays the very bad news that the policemen on-scene may have not been the best of marksmen, due to a complete lack of experience with their weapons. The official policy was that they should fire their weapons on a firing range for training annually.
The problem:
Most of them, including 10-year veterans of the force, have never fired their weapons at all, due to budgetary constraints. They may have had a rifle and 30 rounds for it, but that was all they got, ever, and it's apparently possible that those 30 rounds were loaded in the magazine a decade ago. Wow.
Rule 1: Police should have guns.
Rule 2: Police should be comptetition-level marksmen due to regular practice with their guns. Pistol AND Rifle, EVERY policeman, from recruit to Chief.
Rule 3: Police should have sufficient mental conditioning to open fire on active criminal shooters without hesitation.
Rule 4: Police should face no negative consequences from killing same.
Rule 5: If your department is not going to allow live-fire training, hand out billy clubs and stop pretending, it only makes you look incompetent.
Now Uncle relays the very bad news that the policemen on-scene may have not been the best of marksmen, due to a complete lack of experience with their weapons. The official policy was that they should fire their weapons on a firing range for training annually.
The problem:
Most of them, including 10-year veterans of the force, have never fired their weapons at all, due to budgetary constraints. They may have had a rifle and 30 rounds for it, but that was all they got, ever, and it's apparently possible that those 30 rounds were loaded in the magazine a decade ago. Wow.
Rule 1: Police should have guns.
Rule 2: Police should be comptetition-level marksmen due to regular practice with their guns. Pistol AND Rifle, EVERY policeman, from recruit to Chief.
Rule 3: Police should have sufficient mental conditioning to open fire on active criminal shooters without hesitation.
Rule 4: Police should face no negative consequences from killing same.
Rule 5: If your department is not going to allow live-fire training, hand out billy clubs and stop pretending, it only makes you look incompetent.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Abhinav Bindra Does. . . What, Exactly?
I wasn't sleepy after, er, discussing taxes or something, with L, so I got up to check my email. Yahoo teases a story about India's first Olympic individual gold medal in a long time. The "click here to read all about it" tag says "which sport?" and so I clicked the link. The story I just linked above is what you get. It mentions a shooting range when the man was a child, and calls him a shooter. Does it name the sport?
Read it again, go ahead, I'll wait.
No, it doesn't. That's some fine detective work there, Lou.
You have to click through to here by clicking Abhinav Bindra's name to actually find out what he did.
Men's 10m air rifle. 60 shots. Qualified 4th, finished first.
Why can't you just come right out and say that he skins live cats and bites the heads off chickens and (gasp) horrors! shoots GUNS!!! Okay, so they're air guns but still he's a shooter! Come on, Yahoo!, you can at least mention the sport, if not the event, when you lead with "which sport", can't you? Hopolophobia: curable through education about, and direct contact with and shooting of guns.
I add my applause to the adulation coming at you from the entire nation of India.
Abhinav Bindra, congratulations on your world-class marksmanship. Jesus loves you.
:)
Read it again, go ahead, I'll wait.
No, it doesn't. That's some fine detective work there, Lou.
You have to click through to here by clicking Abhinav Bindra's name to actually find out what he did.
Men's 10m air rifle. 60 shots. Qualified 4th, finished first.
Why can't you just come right out and say that he skins live cats and bites the heads off chickens and (gasp) horrors! shoots GUNS!!! Okay, so they're air guns but still he's a shooter! Come on, Yahoo!, you can at least mention the sport, if not the event, when you lead with "which sport", can't you? Hopolophobia: curable through education about, and direct contact with and shooting of guns.
I add my applause to the adulation coming at you from the entire nation of India.
Abhinav Bindra, congratulations on your world-class marksmanship. Jesus loves you.
:)
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