Libertarian_Geek wrote:A muzzle-brake on an RFB is a bit of a mustache scorcher isn't it?
It seems like it would be, but the vents direct perpendicular to the barrel, and don't attempt to sweep it back. Plus, with no ejection port to throw grit into your face, its a pretty sweet setup....
... if you can get past the bone-jarring, vision-blurring, chest-pounding blast of a muzzle-brake on an 18" 308.
Honestly, the walls shake.
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Regarding this brain-damaged woman...
Tasers are more humane than billy-clubs and saps. We see this nonsense all the time where the cops are second-guessed for following procedure. They also get harrangued for tazing kids instead of "wrestling them to the ground". I have no doubt that the average cop can effectively, physically subdue the average 9-year-old. That said, I also have no doubt that these sorts of confrontations result in dislocated shoulders, broken fingers, and cops getting bit. The whole taser thing got started as a way to be nicer to perpetrators, not to make cops' jobs easier.
The point I'm driving at is, these practices and procedures morphed into existence because of social and legal forces. Like a law professor once told me, "Every law, no matter how dumb, happened because some event somewhere happened and it pissed off someone who could make a law against it." This... tazing... it is the logical result of everything that led up to it.
The cop did the right thing. It sucks that this is the result, but his actions are without fault...
especailly considering however many botched police-perpetrator encounters before this that led up to this policy.
You want to make a policy that makes it safer for perpetrators? How can you protect stupid people from themselves? Are you going to suggest a ban on soda-pop in containers greater than 16 ounces
for the good of the people? There is nothing good down the road you are contemplating. More restrictions are precisely what put that tazer into the cops hand and made it good legal practice to use it. Creating even more codified procedure isn't the answer.
Anyway, clearly you are more concerned about this female's safety than she was about her own. And as Jupiterdraft so wisely pointed out, this outcome is the result of a hundred poor decisions, the vast majority of which were made by the female herself. Flame me all you want, but
she owes that
cop an apology for putting this emotional burden on him - not the other way around.