Nigel Whitfield

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• ilya187 commented on I should blog more, but ...
  @ 1834: My wife's immediate response when she saw it: "Store an MP3 of a gunshot on your smartphone, and play it"...
• Heteromeles commented on I should blog more, but ...
  My wife's immediate response when she saw it: "Store an MP3 of a gunshot on your smartphone, and play it" That's a reasonably sane proposal. Although it needs to be loud, so speakers would help. Strobe lights might help too. My (illegal!) but low-tech idea was fireworks and firecrackers. Properly made, they go through metal detectors and don't look like guns. They've also been militarized by the Ming, so it is about going medieval on an active shooter's ass. Figuring out what to store them, how to deploy them, and keeping them from used for...amusement... are major challenges, of course....
• JohnS commented on I should blog more, but ...
  To quote Gomer Pyle USMC, "stupid, Stupid, STUPID!"...
• David L commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Figuring out what to store them, how to deploy them, and keeping them from used for...amusement... are major challenges, of course. Back when my 30 something son was a teen he used one of our large travel suitcases to store a bunch of fire crackers. I went ballistic on him. He should have known better (we were very frequent flyers) and suddenly realized my point. Toss one big travel bag into the trash. There was residue inside the bag, the seams, etc......
• Heteromeles commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Heh heh. I should say that my preferred method for dealing with mass shooters is to radically limit the availability of guns that.could be used that way, and to make sasumata readily available to control people running amok with coldarms instead of firearms. (See https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/vault/after-slaughter-of-19-disabled-japanese-caregivers-learn-ancient-weapon among.others. There are videos of sasumata being used against knife attacks in real life) Alas, I live in the US, not Japan. So I’m trying to help others figure out how to deal with gun violence without being highly trained shooters themselves. If my solutions seem insane, it’s in part because the situation itself is...