Never point the muzzle of a weapon at anything you aren't willing to destroy

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The story is all over the www and I did not document the source of caliber designations.
If cites are required, there will have to be some arrangement for payment to convert a casual conversation into a research project.
 
Jim Watson said:
The story is all over the www and I did not document the source of caliber designations.
If cites are required, there will have to be some arrangement for payment to convert a casual conversation into a research project.
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Geez, a little defensive eh? If you say "a source says this" is it that strange to be asked where you heard/read it?
 
hdwhit said:
One of the guys from Dude Perfect lives down the street. Their "obsession with internet fame" is paying well enough for him to buy a house.
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To expand on this. I cannot blame anyone for trying to hit it big on YouTube, if you could make millions making videos of stuff you like doing anyway wouldn't you? But the method these people were trying to use to gain notoriety of course was asinine.
 
hdwhit said:
Do you have a link to that source?

And how do we know the other gun was a 50 AE? The Fox story linked by the OP only says it was a 50 caliber handgun; could as easily have been a black powder pistol.
Could be a change in guns as Jim Watson's undisclosed source suggests, or a difference in the number of pages in the book. Too few facts right now, so I'm not going to make any suppositions about the differences between what they may have done with the test that was different from the live run.
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From local news- Family-says-it-was-a-YouTube-stunt-gone-wrong-a-22-year-old-man-is-dead-after-being-shot-in-the-chest-431170773.html
 
My local Minnesota paper claims that they had Desert Eagle. How do they know? Good question....
 
red rick said:
It is hard too [sic] believe that there are people that dumb in this world . I don't feel sorry for them , I feel sorry that she is going to bring a child into this world with their genes .
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That's flat-out rude, not to mention a load of poppycock. This has nothing to do with their "genes." It has to do largely with how they were brought up and how they were formed as humans, given their young ages.

Yes, this TRAGIC incident is wrong on many different levels. It cannot be defended. The right response however is to use this tragedy to open more peoples' eyes to the potential horrors of playing around with firearms and to pray for this young woman that she is able to carry on and do a GOOD job of raising her child.
 
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Solomonson said:
That's flat-out rude, not to mention a load of poppycock. This has nothing to do with their "genes." It has to do largely with how they were brought up and how they were formed as humans, given their young ages.

Yes, this TRAGIC incident is wrong on many different levels. It cannot be defended. The right response however is to use this tragedy to open more peoples' eyes to the potential horrors of playing around with firearms and to pray for this young woman that she is able to carry on and do a GOOD job of raising her child.
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I do not believe stupidity is genetic, but you have to figure the mother who did the shooting isn't exactly a genius, so since she may be raising the child, well........

But I will admit beating them while they are down is not really the "high road". This will be locked soon anyway I am sure.
 
I would like to suggest that you all, we all take a look at this incident from a different angle.

So he tried to produce a video of being shot, being saved by a thick book he held in front of his chest.

What was lost here, is not limited to a man's life, two kid's father, someone's son, brother, spouse, friend.

Let me ask you to think about what the results would have been... had that book successfully caught that bullet and he survived?
 
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I would like to suggest that you all, we all take a look at this incident from a different angle.

So he tried to produce a video of being shot, being saved by a thick book he held in front of his chest.

What was lost here, is not limited to a man's life, two kid's father, someone's son, brother, spouse, friend.

Let me ask you to think about what the results would have been... had that book successfully caught that bullet and he survived?
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YouTube fame and likely more Darwin awards from imitators.
 
Blkhrt13 said:
Kinda makes me want to test it with my 9mm to see if 1.5"s of book would even stop that. Of course no one will be holding the book.
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Save you some time, just go on youtube and search for book/paper bullet penetration tests. You'll see there's already tons. None of course with a person standing behind them.
 
inspired by other youtube videos....

saw one where a guy had phonebooks taped around his gut and shot himself at point blank with i seem to remember it being a .44mag.

also seen video with old metal plate style body armor one guy shooting another guy with a mosin rifle or something to that affect.

now these folks may be experts and know what they are doing but kids watch this and think....i can do this too and here we go. sad and tragic. what a waste of two young folks lives.
 
Solomonson said:
That's flat-out rude, not to mention a load of poppycock. This has nothing to do with their "genes." It has to do largely with how they were brought up and how they were formed as humans, given their young ages.

Yes, this TRAGIC incident is wrong on many different levels. It cannot be defended. The right response however is to use this tragedy to open more peoples' eyes to the potential horrors of playing around with firearms and to pray for this young woman that she is able to carry on and do a GOOD job of raising her child.
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Her children should be taken away from her and she should do time for manslaughter .
 
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Hanzo581 said:
I do not believe stupidity is genetic, but you have to figure the mother who did the shooting isn't exactly a genius, so since she may be raising the child, well........

But I will admit beating them while they are down is not really the "high road". This will be locked soon anyway I am sure.
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You have absolutely no idea of the measure of her intellect based on this horrific incident. Nor do I. Lots of extremely smart people out there do some outrageously obtuse things from time to time. Many intrinsically bright people never develop or use their gift as well. We also don't know if she was cajoled/coerced into taking part in this event.

They ran a test and the book stopped the bullet. Then they ran it again for real, something changed and the target was killed. Ever ponder that they might have been thinking too logically? That they were being so technical about things that they ignored (or didn't know about) the absolute golden rule -- NEVER point the muzzle of a firearm at anything you don't wish to destroy?
 
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