It doesn't help that police have to use FMJ bullets by law, IIRC. Hollowpoints are messy, but they don't pass through as easily and you shouldn't shoot at anything you don't want to kill anyway.
It doesn't help that police have to use FMJ bullets by law, IIRC. Hollowpoints are messy, but they don't pass through as easily and you shouldn't shoot at anything you don't want to kill anyway.
I'm pretty sure the convention that requires the use of FMJ is only for active, wartime soldiers. Does NY state law make them use FMJs? Cus I'm pretty sure that there's no restriction, legally, on law enforcement using Soft or Hollow points.
Regardless, even a 9mm JHP is going to over penetrate at that range.
Yeah, true. At any rate, I'm 99% sure that CPD doesn't allow JHPs, but I could be wrong.
Still, no excuse for this lack of training. Given that officers deal with the civilian populace, I feel like they should be at least as capable as Marines with regard to their marksmanship. That might be overkill, but way too many kids in Chicago have caught strays (from gangs *and* CPD cops) for me to care.
I can't seem to install Windows on my Mac through Bootcamp, due to "windows software not available." So I can't get anything to working. Without that, no Guild Wars 2 and not spending time with my girlfriend.
This might seem too much, but this has easily been one of the worst weeks of my life, from Last Sunday to Today. Car Wreck, Payments, Taking Care of Uncle's Dogs during Interview (Which he probably didn't get, so he's going to move in), School Starting on Monday, Car Availability Drama, Paying for Tuition and Parking Permits, and my oven breaking along with this.
On the first day of school last night, one of my school's incoming freshmen fell out of her fourteenth-story dorm window. It's suspected to have been a suicide.
Oh yeah, man. The stigma attached to depression which prevents people from seeking easy-to-obtain therapeutic and pharmaceutical treatment for a disease which causes them to take their own life? That's not a fail for society. Neither is the fact that a young girl on the first day of what many describe as "the best years of [their] life" threw herself out a window.
No, man. As someone who has thought about suicide, knows people who have attempted suicide, and knew someone who committed suicide, I'm saying it's probably not okay to joke about this if the funniest you can manage is, "Syllabus day must have been some heavy shit."
First off, you haven't actually confirmed that it was a suicide.
Second off, two of my very close friends have tried to commit suicide. One who succeeded and one who did not. I find it offensive that something like that would be put alongside tweets of dumb bimbos who don't know who Neil Armstrong is as well as associating it with a word whose Internet connotation has become synonymous with stupidity. Now while I'm offended I chose not to say anything about it because I know that wasn't the intention and instead opted to make a casual observation on the matter in my second post, which you apparently did not pick up on.
Lastly, my joke was half in jest and half ironic since I would assume there was more to her depression than "the first day of school" (if she truly committed suicide).
I don't want to agree with Matt, but I kinda do. The word "fail" has lost all sense of scale. Putting a suicide and the Empire State Building shootings along side stupid people on the internet feels demeaning.
If you look back through this thread you'll see that it's full of death and horror, alongside the standard stuff. The tone of the discussion always changes with the topic. It's par for the course. You're getting your panties in a bunch over nothing.
If you look back through this thread you'll see that it's full of death and horror, alongside the standard stuff. The tone of the discussion always changes with the topic. It's par for the course. You're getting your panties in a bunch over nothing.
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Still, no excuse for this lack of training. Given that officers deal with the civilian populace, I feel like they should be at least as capable as Marines with regard to their marksmanship. That might be overkill, but way too many kids in Chicago have caught strays (from gangs *and* CPD cops) for me to care.
This might seem too much, but this has easily been one of the worst weeks of my life, from Last Sunday to Today. Car Wreck, Payments, Taking Care of Uncle's Dogs during Interview (Which he probably didn't get, so he's going to move in), School Starting on Monday, Car Availability Drama, Paying for Tuition and Parking Permits, and my oven breaking along with this.
Fuck you, August!
I... don't have words.
Sure.
Second off, two of my very close friends have tried to commit suicide. One who succeeded and one who did not. I find it offensive that something like that would be put alongside tweets of dumb bimbos who don't know who Neil Armstrong is as well as associating it with a word whose Internet connotation has become synonymous with stupidity. Now while I'm offended I chose not to say anything about it because I know that wasn't the intention and instead opted to make a casual observation on the matter in my second post, which you apparently did not pick up on.
Lastly, my joke was half in jest and half ironic since I would assume there was more to her depression than "the first day of school" (if she truly committed suicide).
This is for fails of all magnitude. When the missiles fly, someone will post it here.