We are fond of quoting the judge in the novel and film Nobody’s Fool, who said of a case in which an overeager cop fired his gun, “You know my feelings about arming morons. You arm one, you’ve got to arm them all, otherwise it wouldn’t be good sport.” For some reason we seem to have lots of occasions to think of this quote. Like today, when we read this
The problem is that they are just as likely to shoot you or a loved by accident or act of stupid. We just have to stay at home or eat only at Jack in the Box. For the next 30 years.
Were the words &quot;Hold my beer&quot; uttered at any point during this event? Or did this guy think it was a great idea <i>while sober?</i>
The bullet breaks through several layers of Kevlar before it is finally stopped. These things don&#039;t turn you into Superman -- they don&#039;t cause the bullets to just bounce off. They just keep the bullet from penetrating the part of your body that they cover. From what I understand you still get one hell of a punch from the round, and you may still sustain serious but non-fatal injury, requiring emergency treatment and even hospitalization.
These vests aren&#039;t a primary form of defense but a desperate, next-to-last line (just ahead of prompt emergency treatment and surgery) measure designed to save the wearer from being fatally wounded by a person wielding a firearm. Deliberately taking a gunshot, even one that hit a part of the vest overlying a non-critical region, at point blank range while wearing a vest is stupendously foolish, on the same order as playing russian roulette. The vest isn&#039;t meant to allow you to just stand up to a gunman and be invulnerable to his weapon; it is merely the <i>last </i> line of protection that is capable of saving your life in an armed confrontation.
I don&#039;t know why you even bring up this story, Gary. There waaay more gun owners who don&#039;t think this is a good idea at all.
This is just more of that Gun Grabber Libral Bias! Always going around pointing out things that actually happened and using them to illustrate how all these bad things that actually happened, happened with a gun!
If anything, you should report how many days we go without someone intentionally shooting someone else while testing a bulletproof vest, which would be a loooong time! Think how many days you could run that story, HENNGH GARY??
Or you could report how many times a bulletproof vest actually stopped a bullet! But now that I think about it, that&#039;s probably one to report on because probably most of those bullets were fired by bad people with guns, and we don&#039;t need to talk about those. We need to ignore that it is ridiculously easy for all the bad people to get all the guns. forget I mentioned that.
Oh! I don&#039;t see you covering lawn mower accidents!! Which probably are like, always happening, because I had to pick something other than car accidents, because, you know, cars actually have regulations. WHY U NO COVER LAWNMOWER ACCIDENTS DOKTOR GARY IF THAT IS EVEN YOUR NAME!?
Gary - Not to get too technical, but I think there&#039;s an error in this story. It doesn&#039;t sound like it was a &#039;bulletproof&quot; vest to me.
As for what happened to the gun and the vest - I&#039;m guessing they are not &quot;People&#039;s Exhibit &#039;A&#039;&quot; and &quot;People&#039;s Exhibit &#039;B.&#039;&quot;
&quot;While we mourn the tragic loss, we at the NRA would like to point out that any crazy hatched-wielding rapist psycho home-invasion criminals who are planning to invade your home right at this very moment, as no doubt you&#039;ve noticed in the news, as all the growing snowballing quickly escalating crime statistics show, those subhuman twisted demon-creature criminal lawbreakers would be thwarted mightily by your firm and capable wielding of one of your many firearms. You and your delicate, tender, loving family that you stoically guard like a hero, would be completely protected due to your heroic law-abiding skilled use of your defensive weaponry -- even if the lunatic monster rapist killer savages outside your perimeter right this very moment who are planning to breach your sacred homestead -- they would be stopped dead -- even if they decided to wear a bulletproof vest.&quot;
You&#039;re going to have to try much harder to write a deleted comment.
The problem is that they are just as likely to shoot you or a loved by accident or act of stupid. We just have to stay at home or eat only at Jack in the Box. For the next 30 years.
Keep searching under &quot;FAIL&quot;.
Were the words &quot;Hold my beer&quot; uttered at any point during this event? Or did this guy think it was a great idea <i>while sober?</i>
The bullet breaks through several layers of Kevlar before it is finally stopped. These things don&#039;t turn you into Superman -- they don&#039;t cause the bullets to just bounce off. They just keep the bullet from penetrating the part of your body that they cover. From what I understand you still get one hell of a punch from the round, and you may still sustain serious but non-fatal injury, requiring emergency treatment and even hospitalization.
These vests aren&#039;t a primary form of defense but a desperate, next-to-last line (just ahead of prompt emergency treatment and surgery) measure designed to save the wearer from being fatally wounded by a person wielding a firearm. Deliberately taking a gunshot, even one that hit a part of the vest overlying a non-critical region, at point blank range while wearing a vest is stupendously foolish, on the same order as playing russian roulette. The vest isn&#039;t meant to allow you to just stand up to a gunman and be invulnerable to his weapon; it is merely the <i>last </i> line of protection that is capable of saving your life in an armed confrontation.
I don&#039;t know why you even bring up this story, Gary. There waaay more gun owners who don&#039;t think this is a good idea at all.
This is just more of that Gun Grabber Libral Bias! Always going around pointing out things that actually happened and using them to illustrate how all these bad things that actually happened, happened with a gun!
If anything, you should report how many days we go without someone intentionally shooting someone else while testing a bulletproof vest, which would be a loooong time! Think how many days you could run that story, HENNGH GARY??
Or you could report how many times a bulletproof vest actually stopped a bullet! But now that I think about it, that&#039;s probably one to report on because probably most of those bullets were fired by bad people with guns, and we don&#039;t need to talk about those. We need to ignore that it is ridiculously easy for all the bad people to get all the guns. forget I mentioned that.
Oh! I don&#039;t see you covering lawn mower accidents!! Which probably are like, always happening, because I had to pick something other than car accidents, because, you know, cars actually have regulations. WHY U NO COVER LAWNMOWER ACCIDENTS DOKTOR GARY IF THAT IS EVEN YOUR NAME!?
Needs moar spoons.
I don&#039;t think I ever saw a 3 Stooges film when they had a gun. That was probably a good thing.
ISWYDT.
She would have gotten pregnant and he would have gotten chlamydia.
she was standing her ground.
Gary - Not to get too technical, but I think there&#039;s an error in this story. It doesn&#039;t sound like it was a &#039;bulletproof&quot; vest to me.
As for what happened to the gun and the vest - I&#039;m guessing they are not &quot;People&#039;s Exhibit &#039;A&#039;&quot; and &quot;People&#039;s Exhibit &#039;B.&#039;&quot;
All that and we still don&#039;t know if the vest works. Who can we get to re-test it?
True fact: They were originally The <i>Five</i> Stooges and their act <i>did</i> have a gun.
⪠Shot through the heart And you&#039;re to blame
You give guns A bad name
&quot;While we mourn the tragic loss, we at the NRA would like to point out that any crazy hatched-wielding rapist psycho home-invasion criminals who are planning to invade your home right at this very moment, as no doubt you&#039;ve noticed in the news, as all the growing snowballing quickly escalating crime statistics show, those subhuman twisted demon-creature criminal lawbreakers would be thwarted mightily by your firm and capable wielding of one of your many firearms. You and your delicate, tender, loving family that you stoically guard like a hero, would be completely protected due to your heroic law-abiding skilled use of your defensive weaponry -- even if the lunatic monster rapist killer savages outside your perimeter right this very moment who are planning to breach your sacred homestead -- they would be stopped dead -- even if they decided to wear a bulletproof vest.&quot;