Love the stuff that Scalzi writes; especially the series of novels: Old Man's War, The Human Division and The End of All Things. Being a fan of classic sci-fi, his writing style is always just the ticket.Originally Posted by Jaywalker
Love the stuff that Scalzi writes; especially the series of novels: Old Man's War, The Human Division and The End of All Things. Being a fan of classic sci-fi, his writing style is always just the ticket.
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After the way he desecrated Little Fuzzy, he can kiss my ass.
Recovering Gun Store Commando. My Blog: The Clue Meter
“It doesn’t matter what the problem is, the solution is always for us to give the government more money and power, while we eat less meat.”
Glenn Reynolds
Last night I watched (recorded) the finale of Law and Order, SVU. I have noted, if not here, that this show of the worst portrayals of police shooting tactics I have ever seen. Even my nonshooting wife has said at times, OH for God's Sake at their gun antics. However, we like some of the stories (who knows why).
Anyway in this cluster, there is a young undocmented lady testifying against a trafficker. In the course, of the events, she brains a trafficker with a lamp (among other violence), killing him. His brother vows revenge. She is tried but being protected from cartel revenge. So the brother goes to the DA and says to dismiss charges against her, so they can take their own revenge on her. The DA pontificates that he is a DA! Brother says that they will kill his sister.
Ah Ha! The sister is mentally ill and in a hospital, outside of NYC. The DA calls the local small town police who say they will post a car in front of the hospital.
Surprise, guess who is found sitting his car with a bullet hole in his forehead. The sister is gone.
I'll spare you the idiocy of the gun fight to save the sister which causes her to get killed anyway by the hostage taking cartel member.
A couple of weeks before, another hostage taking situation and ESU opened up a house full of hostage kids with about 20 full auto guns and a few Glocks as if it was the precursor bombardment of Omaha Beach. Guess, what the prime hostage that started the incident takes a 9 mm from the SVU officer who was trying to save her. She was blazing away nito a window. The cop fire was because two cops went on the roof of a house that was know to have ARs to peek down the chimney. The Waco-oid blasted them through the roof and started the barrage fire.
So don't watch this, yeah I know.
But the main point, is don't wear a red shirt. Don't protect someone from a gang of trained assassins by sitting your car out front!
That show has all the realism.
If you mean they're never going to defile the airwaves with new episodes of that dreck, then I celebrate!
Recovering Gun Store Commando. My Blog: The Clue Meter
“It doesn’t matter what the problem is, the solution is always for us to give the government more money and power, while we eat less meat.”
Glenn Reynolds
Does the police academy train you to put down your gun in every hostage situation?
I apologize for even mentioning this show, my focus was a 'red shirt' incident.
I don't see why the NY ESU doesn't picket every on scene filming.
It will be back next year.
In one of the earlier Jack Reacher books, the cops had no trouble getting Reacher's fingerprints off a magazine after the gun had been sitting in the desert sun for a couple of weeks.
I can’t for the life of me remember the name of this book or the author, but I actually do remember the 400 round clip Uzi, because you just don’t forget something that amazing. I believe this book also had time traveling Gestapo hit men.
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