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" Can we get through even one weekend without a multiple murder in suburban America? We do not yet know the full story on this shooting at a mall in Maryland. We probably never will, in no small part because before there is time for the police to pull together the story and understand what happened and why, there will be another multiple shooting somewhere else in America. Almost certainly, like most of the shootings that kill multiple people, be it two or 20, it will be a crime committed by a &amp;quot;law abiding citizen.&amp;quot; Or it will be somebody who stole the unsecured weapon from that &amp;quot;law abiding citizen,&amp;quot; because they are a family member or friend or somebody who just attended a party at the house of the &amp;quot;law abiding citizen.&amp;quot; Here is one for you. Did you know -- because I sure as hell did not -- that more than 230,000 weapons are stolen from &amp;quot;law abiding citizens&amp;quot; every year? Yep, the &amp;quot;law abiding citizens&amp;quot; are effectively acting like the world&amp;#039;s largest Wal-Mart for guns, for free, to criminals. Yeah, they do not mean to, but then they are apparently not smart enough to secure their weapons, so they are stolen, by the hundreds of thousands. These people are the ones who are handing over their weapons, to the tune of more than a quarter of a million, per year, to criminals. Oh, and unless you think this is a class thing, it goes up to and includes pro-gun advocates who sit in the US Congress. These are the people who essentially hand over AR-15 rifles to criminals by allowing people to use their weapons and then leave them completely unsecured in the garage. But it goes on from there, of course, because it is not just the people who make the guns who are behind the massive funding of the NRA who make such drastic mistakes and make things better for the criminals. It is the people who make the bullets too. The bullet makers prey upon the people who are afraid of the criminals and who have guns because 230,000 guns are stolen per year.(Oh, did I mention that already?) See, there is an entire additional industry that relies upon Americans being afraid of the 1.1 million guns that other Americans essentially hand to criminals every four years. That is the people who make bullets. They need fear. And they rely upon the people who pump up that fear to sell their munitions. And now some of them have just launched themselves into cloud-cuckoo\u2013land. A company in Georgia has come out with a handgun round they call the &amp;quot;Radically Invasive Projectile.&amp;quot; Yeah, they actually called a round, and marker it as, &amp;quot;RIP.&amp;quot; They show it penetrating cinder blocks, and brag that it will penetrate car windows (duh), sheetrock (double-duh), and small children (OK, I made that part up.) But only dumb people will buy this. Here is a video:      But the thing about this is that they are actually relying, as a business model, upon the idea that significant enough percentage of gun owners are so stupid as to buy their ammo.  OK, this is simple. Any round which sheds most of its mass upon initial impact is not going to penetrate much more than, well, heavy winter clothing. Remember, Force = Mass x Acceleration, a simplistic equamass is reduced by, say 75%, then force is not what they claim for penetration. But then they do make significant claims and imply others, and in effect the video makes it look like this round is a cop-stopper (because why would you need this round except to shoot at the police?). Why would you need a bullet marketed as being able to penetrate walls and car windows, if you did not want to shoot at American police? Of course at the same time it appears that their marketing is rigged. The gel that they used seems to be sub-standard (looser to make it look like the round is more significant than it is) and the water-balloon...ohhh. In short, they are playing Hollywood in order to get people impressed by YouTube videos to buy their ammo. When even the people who make the bullets are building entire business models and companies upon the idea that a significant proportion of the &amp;quot;law abiding&amp;quot; gun owners are so poorly educated that they do not even remember basic high school science lessons, then perhaps the nation should take that into consideration and require at least an IQ test before letting a person with such intelligence have a gun. I mean, really, if the free market acknowledges this as a fact and builds entire corporate strategies upon the presumption that a significant proportion of gun owners do not know how bullets work, then all free-market advocates must acknowledge this as true, right? Thank you &amp;quot;G2R,&amp;quot; for giving America the clearest evidence to date that you can actually build an entire business model in America based upon the stupidity of people who will buy your ammunition. And I think that further, by proving through your success, that there are a lot of people who own guns in America that have an IQ below 100. You are sort of an IQ litmus test now. The opinions herein are not those of the DoD, the Army, or any unit with which the author is associated. He can be reached at R_Bateman_LTC@hotmail.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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