Headline Of The Day.

[theweaselking]

Governor of Texas goes jogging, saves puppy from coyote using laser-guided pistol.

I don't know why this is NEWS (oh, wait, Huffington Post: nothing but wall to wall crazy people. ANYTHING might be "news", there) but damn if it's not a hilarious image.

Comments

[aor.livejournal.com]

Perry, in re: coyotes: "They're very wily creatures."

I hope that was intentional.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, they have laser-guided pistol rounds now? (ITYM laser-sighted.)

*click*

Yup, you mean laser-sighted.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You use a laser pointer to guide your shots. And my way is much funnier.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

You aim your shots. You don't "guide" shit once it's out of the barrel. "Guided" has a specific meaning in ballistics, and until they start packing active control systems on bullets, pistol rounds don't come close to meeting it.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

I think they had just made development on that front, making guided gun ammo reality... Of course, it was for a 50mm at this point, but...

Buggered if I can recall where I read that thing, though.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Guidance, or stabilization? I know they put fins on anti-tank rounds.

The cost would have to come down a lot to make it feasible for small arms. Putting a lot of money into something that blows up/fragments/is otherwise single-use only makes sense if it can take out something of the enemy's that's worth as much or more. Guided .50-cal rounds for snipers? I can see that. Guided...whatever an M-16 takes? (One of the NATO calibers; I don't remember.) Much less likely.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Guidance. Hey, I found the link again! Joy!

Scary shit people come up with to kill others more efficiently.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha DARPA. That's shorthand for "it'll never happen."

I'm not trying to be dismissive of you, personally, but DARPA RFPs almost never amount to anything.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm taking it with a grain of salt big enough to sate a hundred rabid moose in throes of salt-ecstasy. But, I'll just wait and see if they or someone else comes up with a working design. Really, people put time and effort into making other people dead the easiest possible way.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

The question becomes whether it's just cheaper to send a few soldiers in to die. Plenty more where those came from!

Man, I'd love to just make a living on dumbass DARPA Phase 1 & 2 projects, but they stop awarding them if you consistently only do the early phases and never bid on the later, sure-to-fail phases.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I don't know if even DARPA were fool enough to throw money at it, but I wonder whatever happened to the DREAD (http://www.defensereview.com/world-exclusive-video-dread-weapon-system-devastating-jam-proof-and-silent/). I was surprised at how many people got suckered in by the arguments about how a recoilless gun doesn't break the laws of conservation of momentum :-(

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I could edit it so the headline just says "using LASERS".

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Rick Perry needs to carry a gun while jogging because he's scared a snakes?

... pussy.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

See, granted, I understand why you might carry a gun in the countryside where dangerous animals might pop up. And I don't begrudge a guy for carrying a gun just because he feels like it - I've really got no issue with concealed carry. There's just something about carrying a laser-sighted weapon while going out for a jog that strikes me as funny.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

On behalf of pussy lovers, i am outraged that you'd compare a Texan to pussy.

[camelai.livejournal.com]

First, coyotes don't live or travel in packs. Second, they're not going to attack a person, or a dog right next to a person. Third, it sounds like he's basically saying he saw this coyote, and it had a look in it's eye like it was going to attack... in other words, it didn't do ANYTHING. And did not deserve to be shot by a loony politician jogging with a laser-sighted gun.
*growl*

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

ObSP: "OH MY GOD IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!"

The 'snakes' explanation also puzzles me. Are snakes in Texas really that much more aggressive than snakes in Australia? Otherwise, I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario where it would be both necessary and possible to draw, aim, and shoot a snake before it bit me. I'd much rather have a stick.

[camelai.livejournal.com]

I don't think snakes anywhere justify carrying any gun, let alone a laser-sighted one. I think he's just 1) a scaredy cat (no offense to cats) and 2) gun-happy.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

You need the laser to hit the snake, duh.

[kowh.livejournal.com]

I really wish Huffington Post would give up writing the odd interesting or insightful piece, so reasonable people would stop linking to them. Then I could properly ignore it and not be subject to the leakage of woo* into my news.

*Any site that gives any credence to the thoroughly debunked and actively dangerous notion of vaccines causing autism deserves to be scorned.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

They give column time to *Deepak Chopra*.

Yeah, psycho.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I call `em the Gas-Huffington Post.