I find it disturbing...

... that so many people in the world today don't understand how guns work.

Seriously. You should read the thread over on FARK about the wikileaks video of the two journalists who were killed when they were hanging out with a bunch of armed insurgents. It's as if people don't understand that a helicopter mounted canon can't be used as a sniper rifle. The number of times someone posted "Well, why didn't they only shoot the guys who had the weapons then?" was astounding. Does the general public really think that war is exactly like CoD? I almost think we should got to forced conscription simply so that people understand how weapons work these days. If anything, the whole debate and various misconceptions about weapons of war reinforces the concept that open rebellion within the US would lead to more dead civies than you could possibly count.

Link to fark dealio?

i agree with tallen...early on when they round the building, someone points something from just around the corner up at the helicopter...hard to tell what it was from the video but if i was the pilot i would have done the same thing.

i'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.

Even comparing it to COD it's hard to hit just one guy, just one time. If not impossible.

Also I know nothing about guns pretty much. I do laugh when I see a show "cock" an M16 like a shotgun to load it though.

Gatyr wrote: choopie911 wrote: Also I know nothing about guns pretty much. I do laugh when I see a show "cock" an M16 like a shotgun to load it though. And then they only do it once, as if that is enough to make the bullet fly fast or far.

Or when they call a M16 a high powered weapon, or call mags "clips".

This is what all Chopper Gunners dream of


Edited by Evil Elvis - 07 April 2010 at 10:36pm

It would be like me talking about photography dork stuff on here using all kinds of photography jargon. Some people and places are just more likely to know more about stuff than others.

tallen702 wrote: Weapons just seem to be some sort of taboo when it comes to the general public having at least a basic knowledge of them.

perhaps fearing what they don't understand.

choopie911 wrote: Even comparing it to COD it's hard to hit just one guy, just one time. If not impossible. Also I know nothing about guns pretty much. I do laugh when I see a show "cock" an M16 like a shotgun to load it though.

I've seen that done with an M203 on an M16/M4 in the movies; I've never seen it done with just the M16.