Lawrence: A bullet fired from an AR-15 travels 3x faster than one from a handgun.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 23, 2018
And yet the president and the NRA think giving teachers guns will stop a school shooter https://t.co/heze69kRDU
Gun Controllers Say the Dumbest Thing is a game that can always be played after a mass shooting. But this takes some kind of cake. And a whole range of desserts.
I could have guessed that MSNBC or Vox would win the sweepstakes. And I would have guessed that Lawrence O'Donnell, the nuttiest MSNBC figure after the departure of Sharpton and Ed Schultz, would be in the running. But this is so insane that there almost are no words for this degree of cluelessness. It's like Larry really knows nothing about life except what he reads on Wikipedia.
MSNBC: Lawrence: A bullet fired from an AR-15 travels 3x faster than one from a handgun. And yet the president and the NRA think giving teachers guns will stop a school shooter
Yes, that's exactly his argument. Even if the only coherent argument here is that we should arm teachers with AR-15s.
2,182 miles per hour. That’s how fast the bullets were moving when they came out of that AR-15 at Marjorie Stoneman-Douglas High School last week. 2,182 miles per hour. 3,200 feet per second. That’s what those kids were trying to outrun. That’s three times the speed of a bullet leaving a 9mm handgun.
People don't dodge bullets. Human reaction times are far slower than the speed of any bullet. You can't dodge a musket ball at 390 feet a second. This doesn't come down to the speed of the bullets, outside combat, but human reaction time and accuracy. And yes, that's where General Kelly would have a major advantage over Psycho McGee whose combat experience comes from the latest Battlefield game.
Let's flash back to Garland, TX and the first ISIS attack in America on the Mohammed cartoon contest. The two ISIS Jihadists were young men with body armor, 3 "assault rifles" and 1,500 rounds. They were up against a 59-year-old off-duty officer working security armed with a Glock .45.
Here's how that went down.
The passenger was Elton Simpson, one of two radicalized American citizens who had come to attack the crowd at the Culwell Center, shortly before 1900 on May 3, 2015, in the name of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Wearing soft body armor and load-bearing equipment (LBE), and carrying a pistol and an ominous backpack, Simpson exited the car with a smile and began firing the rifle, which fed from a 100 round drum magazine.
Witnesses said the rifle was fired so quickly it sounded as if Stevens and nearby Garland Independent School District Security Officer Bruce Joiner were taking automatic fire.
Stevens immediately drew his Glock 21 pistol and engaged Simpson with four to five rounds as Simpson fired at him and Joiner with the rifle.
As Stevens fired, he slowly advanced on the suspects from 15 yards away, pressing the attack on the pair as he fired “rhythmically,” obtaining a “decent sight picture” for each round. Stevens was conscious of the fact he had to make his hits count, and his deliberation was rewarded with the sight of Simpson falling to the ground and dropping his rifle.
Switching to the next threat, Stevens pivoted to the left and fired at the driver, Nadir Soofi, who also wore soft armor and LBE, and had a backpack and a pistol. As Soofi rounded the back of the car with his rifle raised in the firing position, his left side was exposed to Stevens, who drew careful aim and shot Soofi in the elbow, above the elbow, the side of the chest and the shoulder, as he continued to advance and fire at a controlled pace.
Switching to the next threat, Stevens pivoted to the left and fired at the driver, Nadir Soofi, who also wore soft armor and LBE, and had a backpack and a pistol. As Soofi rounded the back of the car with his rifle raised in the firing position, his left side was exposed to Stevens, who drew careful aim and shot Soofi in the elbow, above the elbow, the side of the chest and the shoulder, as he continued to advance and fire at a controlled pace.
The .45 caliber Speer Gold Dot 230 grain hollow point that hit Soofi in the shoulder got plugged with material from the LBE and didn’t open, lodging in his spine at the base of his neck. However, the round that hit above the elbow went through the arm, dodged the soft body armor, and entered the side of his chest, where it destroyed the heart and damaged a lung. After Soofi hit the ground, he did a momentary “push up” then slumped back down.
There's lots more there.
Sorry Larry, not a Clint Eastwood movie. Real life.