lazs2: Not to mention their ears were ringing for days.
They were going to die in a short while. Avoiding a gradual loss of hearing was probably not their priority.
With more organized gun safety classes and ranges these guys would be laughed at.. being laughed at woulda burst their bubble and the whole thing woulda never happened..
Every time I go to the range, there is always a few dopes there that make me want to puke or laugh.
He takes an AR-15 and cuts the barrel to "sexy" 11 inches. So that it is totally ineffective beyong 30 yards and even at that distance the bullet drop is huge. Than he gets back withing legal barrel length by soldering a 5-inch muzzle break - for a puny 5.56 round that leaves the barrel at half the speed!
So he has a light, maneuvrable "entry weapon" - being an overweight accountant, without SF training, grenades and other stuff that make CQB possible.
Then he installs a BIPOD (to make it heftier?) on it and an $800 4x combat SCOPE - making sure that a weapon that does not shoot even medium distance is also unusable in a close fight - because he cannot see a thing through the scope due to narrow field of vision!
Of course he is fully versed in all technical matters, tactics, specks, etc.
Realistically, lazs - half the people on the range are wimps and buffoons, more interested in accessorising than shooting straight.
AKIron: Women (as a group) have a valid perspective and definitely bring balance to a society. Of course I'm generalizing as were you which is usually not a smart thing to do.
It is not generalising but a fact that women's decisons are based much more on emotions that man's. Not totally but more.
Women truly did bring balance to a society by working out a balanced family policy that a husband expressed in his vote. After women were granted the right to vote, stopped being merried and got convinced by some politicians that they have separate interests from those of men, the effect is just an extra division and hostility in amercian society.
miko