But they do it in the movies
Good:
The city’s top cop, Ray Kelly, is inviting all City Council members to shoot guns at the NYPD’s firing range — as the state Assembly considers legislation to require police officers to shoot gun-wielding suspects in the limbs, rather than aim to kill.
“I would recommend everyone goes. It’s a very eye-opening experience, especially for anyone who thinks police officers should shoot guns out of people’s hands,” Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Queens) told the Council Public Safety Committee during a budget hearing yesterday.
This happens because people who don’t know about guns make policy on guns.
June 7th, 2010 at 9:54 am
This should be educational.
June 7th, 2010 at 10:12 am
So what the cops in NYC are saying is that having a badge and a fancy outfit DOES NOT convey some magical power that makes you better trained than someone without those baubles. That is the real news here I think.
June 7th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Shooting the guns out of criminals’ hands — or just grabbing the slide — will be easier once they set pi equal to 3.0.
June 7th, 2010 at 10:26 am
hahahahahahaha! Oh my! They ought to see some of their officers shoot!
June 7th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Wise idea! Let them shoot guns to find out. Amazing idea! Why do they need this?
Because they have banned guns for so long they don’t even know how they really work!
All their info comes from TV cop shows!
Sad commentary on law makers, right?
June 7th, 2010 at 11:03 am
I guess the legislators will also see that you also have to reload unlike most hollywood movies they watch in the name of gun research.
June 7th, 2010 at 11:09 am
I’m gonna predict that most of these “lawmakers” are gonna look down on this idea like they look down on the people and usually the police that “protect” them.
June 7th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Retardo,
I think Kentucky or Tennessee did define pi as 3.0 (or was it 4.0) several decades ago. Strange though, circles still look the same.
June 7th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I agree with you Will, Those fatcats will make some lame excuse like not having the time to do so instead of educating themselves.
‘Sides, If they were to go they may get proven WRONG! The horror!
June 7th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Remember these are the same type of people who brought James Cameron in to solve the oil spill…because he’s made movies underwater. Or was it underwater movies?
Here’s a nice timely anecdote on the same theme regarding environmental sciences.
June 7th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
“I think Kentucky or Tennessee did define pi as 3.0 (or was it 4.0) several decades ago. Strange though, circles still look the same.”
No, the Internet rumor was Alabama in 1998 (but that was a hoax).
In the 1890s the Indiana House of Representatives had a proposal to recommend that pi is 3.0. It did not become legislation (or resolution) but it did create much mirth.
June 7th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Now now, if they trained for 6 hours a day every day doing nothing but shooting at a target’s arms and legs, I’m sure at least half of them would be able to accomplish such a feat with regularity after no more than a year or two of training. If their target was stationary and within 30 yards.
June 7th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
I don’t care. I have no problem with NYC’s finest being made subject to this. They brought this stupidity (and it is stupid) on themselves with all their shootings of unarmed innocents. Harsh? Maybe, but as I said, I don’t care.
Could anger and a sense of vengeance be my motive. Oh hell yeah!
June 7th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Front sight, center mass, press, repeat. Repeat, look over front sight, if it is still a threat, repeat in a better way. Keep repeating untill your goal has ben met. Anyone that tries to tell you that he(or she, for that matter)is not trying to kill you because they did not get it right the first time is a F#$%^(& lier. That was FUCKING lier, by the way. I have a way of self censoring my typing, cheap keyboard. Anywhoo, I’ll shut up.
June 8th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Look, it’s not surprising legislators want to redefine Pi. The number we use now is irrational.
Now if they could just redefine fluid dynamics so it wasn’t so hard to plug a high pressure pipe at the sea floor.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
JKB FTW!
Today’s Quote of the Day.
June 9th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
The business about redefining Pi is almost ALWAYS misreported.
It was Indiana where a bill to declare Pi to be equal to a rounded off figure (3.2) was introduced.
There was a physician who believed he had discovered a way to “square the circle” and he wrote a paper on geometry, which declared Pi to be a ratio of 4 to 4/5 (3.2, if you work it out). He even had this paper published in the July 1894 edition of the magazine American Mathematical Monthly.
He decided this amazing new advance should be available to the schoolchildren of Indiana, copyrighted it, and persuaded his state representative (a farmer, and a freshman politician) to introduce a bill mandating the use of his new method (Indiana got to use the mathematic “proofs” free of charge, anyone else had to pay teh doctor a royalty).
There being no geometers, engineers, or surveyors in teh Indiana house of representatives, they chucked the bill into the committee that handled surveys, and then passed it. The rep who introduced the bill stated in debate he didn’t understand it, and was introducing it solely at the request of his neighbor, the doctor. MANY of teh representatives stated they didn’t understand it. But, hey, it was published in a scientific journal, it must be correct, right? (Sounds like Anthropogenic Global Warming, eh?)
By teh time the bill hit the Senate, a Purdue professor at the capitol for budget hearings happened to hear about the bill, and was horrified. He spoke with the state senators, and by the time the bill was brought to the floor, it was roundly ridiculed by them, then tabled as being not fit for discussion by the Senate.
The whole thing was due to a nut with a paper full of scientific sounding mumbo-jumbo, who fooled a rookie politician into introducing a bill. This nut also managed to convince the editors of a mathematical journal into publishing his paper.