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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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Friday, April 26, 2024

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Speaking of ACAB... There's a ridiculous one in Tennessee right now for a guy who organizes car shows. He runs the video operations for a number of YouTubers with car oriented streams. So there is a group that shows up to these events and effectively takes them over doing donuts, revving engines, etc. These are the same people that take over intersections doing donuts in the streets, etc. the police never seem to catch.

After this first happened, he both talked to and invited the police to his events and advertises them as no excessive noise/revving, no donuts, etc. in an attempt to stop the group. These people show up and start doing their thing and they don't listen to him or those working with him. He asks the police for assistance and literally gets told "We aren't going to do anything because we are outnumbered". They were told the reason their presence was requested... This happens each event. (There is body cam footage of him requesting assistance as soon as someone does anything.) They don't take any actions against these people even afterward. They are on video. The plates of some cars are on video. They don't do anything to track down the culprits later or serve them with charges - nothing.

One day, a rather large group of State Police show up to arrest him on 5 counts of inciting a riot for the 5 events they attended. (Not kidding, he wasn't home but you can see at least 8 police in the door cam video.) If they make them consecutive and he is found guilty he is looking at 5 years in prison. They are claiming he is tied to this group and essentially they are showing up at his bidding - this despite all the advertising, inviting the police, etc. Over a year in and there is no resolution in sight. Perhaps, just perhaps, they should follow up after the event with the perpetrators? Or say if the police were to wait for these people to show up and do their thing and then came in in force just once not only would there be no more problem they would catch a bunch of these people in the act and be able to impound their vehicles and charge them...

#14 | Posted by fatboomboom

Wow, someone needs to brush up on how systems have LONG lasting (multi-generational) outcomes. I know this will fall on deaf ears but...

Look there are exceptions to everything but Americans created the system that Danforth is referring to. Specifically White Americans created it. First we had slavery, next we had Jim Crow, and it continues on and on through legal processes. The legal process is pretty much outlined in CRT. Critical Race Theory isn't something to "teach in schools". It is a theory that laws are created that are racist and MANY are targeting directly or indirectly people of color. One of the outstanding examples is law and punishment around Powder vs Crack cocaine. They are pretty much equal drugs but crack was favored in communities of color. So why are the punishments for crack so much more harsh than powder?

So yes, it seems like it should be so simple but it isn't. There is a lot of evidence critical behaviors for lifelong success are embedded by the time someone is 5 or 6 before schools really even have a chance. Of course everyone is different and there are exceptional people that pull themselves out of Poverty and the Poverty culture. They are the exceptions. I personally know several that have come from poverty to become successful - Doctors, Teachers, Engineers, Coaches / Mentors, Military leaders and even an NBA coach (Darvin Ham). I don't consider the Pro Athletes themselves to have left the poverty culture behind - some do but most don't. At the same time I am talking about a handful out of 3000-4000 students that went to a VERY poor school around the time I graduated from a very different high school. I just spent a good amount of my youth in the neighborhood visiting family who refused to leave as it turned into a ghetto and ended up with a couple lifelong friends from the school. I wasn't wealthy by any means but the disparity was real. I can honestly say that my early life has steered the course of my life as well.

Actually it isn't all that surprising to me.

I guess maybe because I read about it a while back. The P320 was basically a redesign of the P250 and it seems in the design process Sig wanted to retain as many of the same parts between models. The P250 was a heavier and hammered version that could go off if dropped on it's butt - i.e. firing from inertia. The P320 is hammerless with a fully preset striker instead. A big issue is in the P320 there is no separate lever like found on nearly every other striker fired gun. That piece in a gun is an inertial drop safety. In other words it stops the trigger from pulling itself under inertia when the gun is dropped.

It is also important to note the striker is under full spring pressure in the P320 (and honestly many if not most similar handguns). This basically means it is fully cocked and requires less force to pull the trigger. Throw in the fact that in the rush to produce the P320 and retain parts between the two, they didn't bother to replace the trigger until issues started popping up and only then under a "voluntary" upgrade program and I don't think they were in the NEW guns until 2019. The new trigger is much lighter weight to help prevent this problem of firing from inertia. These add up to a series of design flaws IMHO.

There is a second issue that compounded the trigger problem. The striker safety lever and sear springs could become entangled and bound up leaving the striker safety disengaged and the sear not fully engaged. This could potentially cause the safety to fail and the pistol to fire unintentionally when subjected to impacts.

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