Scumpup
August 16, 2015, 4:50pm
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RTFirefly:
Not sure what’s handgun-specific about it. If we assume each bullet takes a linear path through the house, and it doesn’t matter where along its path a bullet intersects a person, it’s the same problem as taking 200 skewers of sufficient length and sticking them through the house.
Say we’ve got a 2000 square foot house, 40x25 x 2 stories. Start off with 38 skewers 6 inches above floor level on the ground floor, 8 inches apart, then another 38 skewers in the equivalent plane on the second floor, and chances are pretty damned good of someone getting skewered, and I still have 124 skewers left.
Actually, not really. Especially given your stated assumption that the nutjob is going to try to break into your house and kill you, it’s gonna take him several minutes to break in and ascertain that you’re not there. If you’re on the next street while he does this, he should still be going through your house when the cops show up.
Maybe there are problems with being on foot that are clear only if your family isn’t good on their feet, or if your neighborhood has high fences across back yards that render the next street over inaccessible, or maybe there’s no vegetation whatsoever, so the lines of sight are so good that his chances of seeing you on the next street over are uncomfortably good. But it’s hard to see these problems unless you’ve specified them.
I’m a big fan of being on foot, because from the POV of someone traveling on streets, I can disappear, and reappear in unpredictable places.
Is the psycho now carefully gridding his fire? Before he was just shooting as fast as he could pull the trigger. Where did the extra 100 rounds of ammo come from? You are changing things up in mid-stream as your previous version falls apart.
You predicted the psycho would be killed by the cops. Are you hedging that now?
Scumpup
August 16, 2015, 5:29pm
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If you want to have this conversation, I am going to need you to stay focused. Earlier you were complaining that I had Bricker predicting what the psycho would do. I pointed out to you that he was acting on information the OP said he had. Now you are complaining that I predicted the cops would kill the psycho and accusing me of hedging. Please make up your mind whether you are talking about Bricker or me and then stay focused on that choice. Thank you in advance.
Scumpup:
If you want to have this conversation, I am going to need you to stay focused. Earlier you were complaining that I had Bricker predicting what the psycho would do. I pointed out to you that he was acting on information the OP said he had. Now you are complaining that I predicted the cops would kill the psycho and accusing me of hedging. Please make up your mind whether you are talking about Bricker or me and then stay focused on that choice. Thank you in advance.
That made no sense at all.
Scumpup:
We’re done.
Come back! I was going to make espresso!
Scumpup
August 16, 2015, 7:00pm
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OK, that was a clever pop culture reference. Well done!
