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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. NatCH

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    Also, there’s video right after the shot where a guy about twenty feet from the front gets up and starts chanting “USA! USA!”
     
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    It could be anyone, I guess. They released a
    photo of a person of interest and it looked like Ryan Holiday to me. The emblem on the shirt is one for Disabled American veterans. I wonder if this person had a continued plan to get away as fast as they did at the campus, or if they’ll leave a trail like a caterpillar— like Luigi did.
     
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    Honestly, it’s not that different than deer hunting, once you get past the “person” part of it.

    Moving targets and huge adrenaline dumps are par for the course, and becomes somewhat normalized after a while.
     
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    What if I told you that there are things you can take to quell those effects without affecting your aim?
     
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    Based on what little info I've seen online, I would guess the shooter was aiming center mass.

    When shooting downhill you will strike your target high if you don't account for the drop in elevation. At 200yrs, with the elevation drop from the roof to where he was sitting, that would roughly equate hitting the neck when aiming at center mass.
     
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    That shit those guys took in the North Hollywood shootout, what was it called— phenobarbital barbiturates. Basically turning your brain into real-life Doom Guy.
     
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    They did release the picture of the person of interest, so be careful out there if you look like a skinny college kid or Lou Diamond Phillips.
     
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    You know more than I would. People were saying center mass or head, I just assumed there’d be drop.

    Dude had to be on an adrenaline high all night though, seeing the news.
     
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    If anybody wants a chuckle, it's worth a quick look over at r/music and the 'random' assortment of music videos that have been posted in the past 24 hours.
     
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