If killing people with firearms was as easy as you think, every time we have one of these "public shooter" incidents, the body count would be double digits every time. The kid in the mall? He should have been able to kill with at least 50% accuracy, one dies for every two shots fired. But it never seems to add up in the end that way...for a reason.
Please don't perpetuate the old anti-gun rhetoric. Sure, it's eas
ier at times to kill with a firearm, that's a given, but they're not the death rays everyone thinks they are.
Further, there is nothing "classy" about blowing people up or burning them down. That's absurd. I'm sorry. The whole concept that putting a bullet into someone is barbaric but sending several high speed projectiles through them via a bomb, or setting their ass on fire is "classy" is simply thoughtless.
Before you get pissed and come back and flame me, carefully consider what I am saying.
Carefully consider the backwards-ass hollyweird message of the show.
A pistol has a set of sights on it, it is a discriminate weapon. You can aim it. The character on the show was CARELESS with a discriminate weapon that can be aimed.
An explosive device or an incendiary have no sights, except for a Claymore AP Mine, but they are basically indiscriminate weapons. My Dad's ancient WW2 Marine Corps Manual has a wonderful line about hand grenades, "Why are hand grenades dangerous?" Then: "Ans. Because they are always loaded, cocked and pointed at you." I always thought that a hand grenade was one of the most crazy weapons ever devised, it's sort of like the ballistic knife, I don't really like weapons that rely on a cotter pin for safety.
OK for boat propellers, not so good for small BOMBS!
The message of the show is, the hero is too ******* stupid and careless to use a discriminate weapon so he turns to BOMBS and FIREBOMBS, history's indiscriminate killers, for his tools. And, if that is not crazy enough for you, he doesn't use manufactured devices, but improvised devices from readily available chemicals, etc., which is not exactly a safe thing to do under ideal conditions.
I would be lying if I said there were not moments of the show that I found entertaining, amusing and sometimes informative. But, overall, I don't think the message of the show is intelligent then or now. That does not mean there are not moments of intelligence in episodes, it just means the whole storyline as to who he was and how he did things is a wash out for me because it's basically B.S. for the reasons I cited above.
I remember being about 16 years old and sitting at a neighbor's picnic table and having this EXACT same discussion with a really strange guy who was into Star Trek and Computers back when the TRS-80 was KING! He was so anti-gun, he just couldn't wrap his mind around what someone half his age was trying to tell him.
Anyway, here is to Heather Thomas coming out of the hot tub on THE FALL GUY, anyone that thinks Heather
Locklear was hotter than Heather Thomas, well, Pearle Vision is having a sale my survivor friends.
And, lift a coffee mug to the A-Team, never have so many sexy stainless steel Ruger AC-556s been blazing at once with brass littering the air and ground with not so much as a speck of blood on the pavement!
Chris
