Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "ABC News" channel.

  1.  @kisha4040  Same here in NYC, mostly.
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  2. She's damm lucky. She got shot in the shoulder. The shoulder has lots of vital/mortal target-points. The sub-clavian artery and vein - normally are protected by the collarbone, in a fist-fight or a knife-fight, but that won't stop a bullet. Someone who gets hit there is 60% likely to bleed out before he gets to the ER.
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  3. Whether you're a teacher, a dean, or a don, It's better to get fired than to get fired upon.
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  4.  @ComplicatedBot  I'm talking about blood vessels UNDER YOUR COLLAR BONE. Look up: "Subclavian artery" and "subclavian vein".
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  5.  @mitchbrown6652  This gun is designed to be compact (Taurus G2c). It's five inches high by 6.2 inches long.
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  6. Also the manufacturer and the store where she bought the gun. Hold everyone liable. That's how problems get fixed. We don't need government to micromanage the problem. Just give someone who is in a position to do something about it some incentive, and let them solve the problem. They are the experts on guns, right? The incentive should be: if you figure out how to prevent a gun you sell from being used in a crime, you get rewarded by being able to stay out of prison. Now you say "But how can I tell who's gonna misuse the gun I sell? I can't read my customers' minds!" The answer is: That's your problem. Don't whine about how challenging it is. Solve it. That's what Americans do. We solve problems. We didn't get to the Moon, or create the computer-industry, or sequence the human genome, or win the Cold War, by whining about how hard the job was. That's what losers do. "Boo hoo, the problem is so difficult, what can I do?" The answer is: "You can act like a man." Rise to the occasion. Be a winner, not a loser. Or else, you will find yourself having to solve a different problem: how to survive a long prison sentence.
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  7.  @reloadNshoot  In order to motivate them to fix the problem. Today technology exists that could have prevented this - smart gun-handles that can read palm-prints and not fire if the gun is being held by someone other than the rightful owner. The seller is culpable because he sold a gun which was not outfitted with this technology. That's how we motivate the experts to solve the problem - not my mandating smart gun handles, or small magazines, or whatever, but by motivating the experts (the sellers) to solve the problem. Or to put the same thing another way: the store and manufacturer are liable just because they haven't solved this problem yet. That fact, all by itself, makes them liable.
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  8.  @elenac.sd.978  You're absolutely right. And this is just the beginning. It's gonna happen again and again - statistically, there's no reason to expect it not to happen again. We have too many guns in the hands of too many idiots. And sooner or later, in one state or another, a single-digit-age child will shoot his teacher to death. If the people don't rebel then, they never will. We will live in SecondAmendmentistan for the duration.
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  9. 42 arrests but no murders. Probably for minor crimes. It should have been possible to neutralize this guy without killing him. Non-lethal force, that's what was needed. We should be training people to use it.
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  10. Seems to me it ought to be possible to train combat personnel in non-lethal use of force. This skinny guy - they should have been able to subdue him without killing him. One solid punch to the stomach would likely have solved the problem.
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  11.  @BiteMeStalker  That's a particularly stupid myth. Crackheads are just as vulnerable to physical violence as anyone. The difference between a crackhead and you is not that you respond differently to a hard punch to the stomach delivered by a capable marine; the difference is what you do afterwards. You probably get up after you recover, and go on with your life or go to an emergency room. The crack-head gets up and goes on looking for more crack.
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  12. Just because it already fn did rise, doesn't rule out the fn possibility that it might fn rise EVEN MORE, in the near fn future.
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  13.  David Erickson  This time the blame will likely be placed on the heads of those who refused to vaccinate, and those who encouraged them to refuse, for money and for votes.
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  14. Yeah. Choke-holds seem to be very unreliable. If you are a trained professional, and know how to do a choke-hold, don't.
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  15. Maybe he fired it improperly.
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  16. What happened in the little boy's home was the parents bought a god-damned gun. USA has too many guns in the hands of too many idiots.
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  17. Sure, the marines were right to neutralize him, but did they really need to kill him? That seems to be the key question. From the look of the guy, one marine-powered punch to the bread-basket should have been enough to make him stand down.
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  18.  @burmy1552  Or, perhaps, in 2 years Ford will be making safer cars. (Oh, and rocket science isn't really all that hard. Statistical mechanics is much more challenging.)
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  19. The country is overrun with guns in the hands of idiots, and needs to be purged.
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  20. Obviously the fires are being set by Dr. Fauci. Funded by Soros.
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  21. Do you think this kind of thing isn't gonna happen again? Wait until a single-digit-age kid shoots his teacher and the teacher dies. What will the gun-freaks say then?
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  22. I looked up the user's manual for the gun. It has some funny lines in it: "!WARNING When a firearm discharges [sic.] the bullet or shot can strike a person, resulting in death or serious bodily injury.” (Yeah.) "IF A FIREARM GOES OFF, THERE WAS A ROUND OF AMMUNITION IN THE CHAMBER. Period." No sht, Sherlock. Really??? The gun comes with a "trigger safety" and a "firing pin block", and a "factory-supplied locking device", for all the good that'll do. The manual includes a helpful tip: "!WARNING Failure to secure a firearm may result in injury or death. Properly securing a firearm means storing your firearm unloaded, decocked and securely locked, with all ammunition in a separate location" This helpful tip is preceded in the manual by another helpful tip: "Securing your firearm may inhibit access in a defensive situation and may result in injury or death" So I guess when it comes to securing your gun, you're fcked if you do, and fcked if you don't. Another helpful tip from the manual: "!WARNING Never leave your keys in the lock when the lock is installed on the firearm." Yeah, that's the kind of thing I would do.
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  23. Sure, but that costs a lot of money.
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