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Law Enforcement, remember this article is about a Cop, isn’t “just anyone”. There’s two reasons for people being riled up about this, one of which is criminal and the other is user error / training.

Ignoring the criminal aspect of what he’s doing the Cop literally cannot fire that weapon without endangering himself and his fellow officers. He also can’t fire that weapon a second time without manually manipulating it because he’s using it in a manner that WILL cause it to mechanically malfunction.

It’s fucking stupid (and criminal) all the way around but it has nothing to do with the points you are making.

How the fuck is this legal?

Glock, an Austrian company, uses a variety of common sense safeties that are automatic in nature.

With a manual safety the user has to remember to engage / dis-engage it as appropriate. This means a weapon can be left in an unsecured state simply because the user forgot (or elected not too) engage the manual safety. Conversely if the user forgets to disengage the manual safety the weapon will not fire when they need it too, which makes an awful lot of sense when you know that Glock designed these weapons for Law Enforcement.

To work around the weaknesses of a Manual Safety Glock designed what it calls its “Safe Action System” which you can read about here.. In a nutshell a Glock will not fire unless the trigger is intentionally pulled in the correct way.

Other pistol manufacturers will have some, or all, of those feature and may have other things such as “Grip Safeties” where you have to be holding the pistol both correctly and tightly enough before it can discharge.

There’s quite a variety of automatic safeties in use in the pistol world. If you are interested you can read about them here.

On balance these kinds of automatic safeties are at least as effective as a manual safety and there are valid arguments with empirical evidence showing that they can be safer.

Any of the folks who place more value in their ability to end another person’s life on a split second than the safety of their own children want to chime in and explain this one to me?

Could you explain why you are using such inflammatory language? NO safety can or is meant to make a loaded firearm safe from a child. It’s arguably easier for a child to flip the selector lever on a manual safety than it is for one to grip a firearm a specific way or pull its trigger in a specific way (or both).

Loaded weapons, regardless of their type(s) of safety mechanism, should not be left where they can be handled by children.

“You don’t rise to the occasion, you fall to your level of training.”

The point of the article is clearly the unacceptable behavior of the officer but damn does it make my teeth itch when Journalists fail basic fact checks like Pistol / Revolver. I always wonder what else they got wrong.

Depends on their wealth.

The kid was driving an Audi S4. I suspect they have some spare $$$ available. (assuming they haven’t spent it all on repairs)

Hard to say. The kid was driving an Audi S4 so they likely have money.

This has absolutely nothing to do with “Stand Your Ground”. SYG only applies when you or someone else are in real and imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death, neither of which were true in this case. That’s why the guy was arrested and has been charged with a number of serious offenses. He’s going to end up in prison.

Since you aren’t from the United States I should also tell you that SYG isn’t a National thing, its only legal in the States in that have passed laws allowing it.

I keep wondering if a legal framework like the US where you weren’t legally punished by attacking a thief in your house wouldn’t be fairer but then there’s news like this.

That’s called “Castle Doctrine” and like SYG it isn’t National. It only exists in the States that have passed a law to allow it.

It CAN work but there’s at least a few States that have Castle Doctrine and a Duty to Retreat so you end up having to flee a home invader until or unless you have no other choice.

One was supposedly delayed from CA to OR because of “weather” which is odd as it has been sun and mostly mild temps over the last week.

Not to defend UPS too much but enormous wildfires probably go in as “weather”.

California.

Oregon.

Only 2nd, not 3rd?

2nd best is a turn of phrase, an old one. It’s an insult. You must not be very well read.

for some considerable time now, russian close air support stays well outside of ukrainian surface to air missiles range by using glide bombs to deliver bombs to the frontline.

The F-16s can solve this. The range of even the older AIM-120C AMRAAM exceeds that of the Russian glide bombs by 30 to 60 kilometers. The D variant, and I have seen Ukrainian F-16s with this loaded, has a range of 180 kilometers. That’s enough to knock a Russian aircraft out of the sky long before they can use a glide bomb.

The US has said they will be providing Ukraine with the 120D and Raytheon is maxxing out production of them.

III. russian jets flying air defense sorties will have to be stationed at further airbases.

The JASSM will push them back hundreds of miles and that’s no small matter. Aircraft like the SU-25 only have a range of 560 miles, roughly 900 kilometers. The JASSM could push them so far back that they become unusable as they can’t carry enough fuel! The MIG-25 might be able to make it, just barely, but there will be no range left for any combat. Even the SU-34 will have to fly lots of extra distance in order to keep far enough back and all that extra flight time comes at a serious cost to tempo and aircraft availability.

The JASSM is no small thing, don’t underestimate what will happen when it shows up.

The guy who actually did all the trafficking, Demetrius Minor, got just 18 months in prison. This lawsuit is nothing more than political theater.

unsavory agents

I was curious so I went to their webstore and looked. There’s nothing there for Kamala, Immigrants, or even metal street signs.

It’s still an ugly little webshop with ugly messaging but I didn’t find anything like whats in the pictures.

I’m not seeing a problem here. Anyone walking through a residential neighborhood after dark while wearing a ski mask in August and carrying a 14" knife probably needs to be talked to.

The NSSC already took the case and the Registration Deadline is October 11th. There’s plenty of time for them to make a ruling.

The Nebraska State Supreme Court is going to bitch slap this so hard that it lands in Sioux City, Iowa.

Okay this might sound like conspiracy theory bullshit

Only to people who haven’t been paying attention. Russia has been funding Environmental Groups in the US and the EU for decades with the goal of disrupting domestic energy supplies and ensuring reliance on Russian Oil and Gas.

If you web search a phrase like “Russia funded environmental groups” you can find plenty of references, especially around 2014 and again in 2022, but if you dig further you can find research on this dating back to the 1980s.

Here’s an article with reliable sources that specifically addresses nuclear.

BTW, if you remember the “Earth Liberation Front” (ELF) that was actively burning shit down (literal arson) back in the 1990s then this article from the New York Times will interest you. One of the ELF’s founding members, Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, was being hunted by the FBI so he fled home…to Russia.

But is there any major country preparing to construct nuclear power plants, or is there a looming decision about nuclear power over fossil fuels coming soon?

Yes. China is building quite a few but more relevant is that here in the United States a traditional one was just completed, we have two more in the permitting process, and we have at least one (if not two) next-gen Natrium SMR’s under way.

The anti-nuclear coverage isn’t all Russian propaganda of course but articles like this one should be viewed with deep suspicion.

My opinion on this is that they’re already getting money from ads

Are they? With so many people, especially here on Lemmy, willing to go hard to adblock plus a steadfast refusal to pay for YT Premium I’d guess that most smaller YT Content Creators are getting very little ad revenue. Without Merch sales and Patreon how are they supposed to get any money to support themselves?

I understand your point about being a walking billboard and I feel the same way but these days it just feels like no one wants to contribute in any way to help support small time creators.

Yeah this is an article freaking people out over Pu-238, Pu-239, and Pu-240. All of which are alpha emitters (radiation easily blocked by clothes and skin) and all of them have half lives measures in years or decades.

This article has juuust enough detail to get a reader riled up without actually educating them enough to understand what they are reading.

Absolutely. In fact one of my first posts to Lemmy was documenting how every POTUS, VPOTUS, Speaker of the House, and Senate Majority Leader has spoken at an AIPAC conference going back to the Clinton Administration. They’ve likely been the most powerful lobbying group in America since at least the early 90s and most American’s had never heard of them until recently.

It’s my opinion that AIPAC’s power both predates and has nothing to do with Citizens United.