Your way with words and your wit and charm makes your posts a pleasure to read Fish.
( I have given up on the Mr or Mrs thing too)
Your way with words and your wit and charm makes your posts a pleasure to read Fish.
( I have given up on the Mr or Mrs thing too)
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
yawn... jesus christ! you guys are still at it...
I gotta start runnin the books on who's gonna back out first...
come one people! gather round... anybody on dover?
come one? five bucks on the dovenator to back down and go elsewhere (okay, even i can see that one aint gonna fly...) How about the ixion/fish tag team duo , by far the dominators of this verbal fued... i mean, thread (honest)... Ten bucks on ixion/salmon (shit, fish... i meant fish) to stop posting? anybody?
Howabout the new contender Davereid? five bucks for the davereid to lay the slap down on everyone... COME ON PEOPLE!
Denden (bookie for the day)
p.s: bwahahahaha! im so happy...
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
you sniper! theres a brown smudge on your lips...
Denden
I see no reason for a legal precedent needing to be set.
The guy had guns at his disposal, some twat tried to rob him with a machete and got his just deserts.
If the crown (read: lesbian tree hugging liberal mafia) feel the justification to drag this man through court then they should foot his legal bill.
The just verdict in this case would be to sentence Greg to a few more days at the range using some of Her Majesty's detainees as targets.
Maybe next time he'll make his shot count.
Actually, I was thinking about this last night. I'm not sure if the definition of 'justifiable purpose' or whatever the term is in the offense Greg's been charged with has ever been defined in detail.
If it hasn't, and the question of whether a gun shop keeping a pistol ready for staff to defend themselves with is 'justifiable purpose' is left open to the jury to decide, we could end up with a real case law pearler that opens the door to legally arming oneself.
I reckon it's definitely worth putting a hundred bucks into Greg's defense fund. I'm popping down to SAI tomorrow to do just that.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
After having been in two armies (NZ and UK) I can state that if when I was serving and I had to make the decision to shoot and I deliberately shot to wound, I would be hauled accross the coals by my firearms instructor.
It was drilled into me
3 shots, 2 to the chest and 1 to the head. It became second nature to shoot that way.
I have a good friend that was in bullet catcher game for the diplomatic corps. He had an instance to draw and use his Browning. When the shooting was over he realised that he had been through 2 magazines of ammo. Thats 30 rounds of 9mm. Training took over.
Greg fired one shot at a non lethal area. Lots of thought and bravery to do that.
If it had of been me in the same situation I can quite catagorically state that the machete weilding (sorry alleged) assailant wouldnt be there to plead NOT GUILTY.
As a matter of fact, aiming below the navel was smart shooting in this case.
A yarpie friend who used to be in the SA police force lent me a book on small arms tactics that he used as a manual back in the day, and it made some illuminating comments on the instantly incapacitating pain of a gutshot, as opposed to the instances where guys have continued to attack for 30 seconds after being shot through the heart, and the cases where guys have walked out of the bush days after being shot through a lung.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
I'd like to think that in that situation the machete weilding assailant would have ended up in the basement with Maurice, never to escape with a tale that he'd wish to tell.
However, I'd probably have screamed like a bitch, shot at the cunt, missed and be chopped to ribbons whilst the gangs of South Auckland were left to think Christmas had come early with a new supply of weapons to terrorise the NZ public.
Absolutely. Huge respect to Greg for being able to pull off a single incapacitating shot under such stress.
The canonical center-mass double tap followed by a headshot would certainly have been justifiable, and undoubtedly resulted in no more legal hassle that he's already in.
[Edit: Perhaps it helps that Greg's pistol skills come from competitive practical shooting, rather than combat training.]
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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