Hollywood gun notions

We've started watching Designated Survivor on Netflix. It's pretty good, even though they throw in the occasional left wing rhetoric on some topics.
In one of the recent episodes we watched, the main character was shot by a sniper. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where a doctor who must have been extremely knowledgeable about firearms and ballistics examined him. I say this because the doctor took one look at a bloody wound, and pronounced it was made by a 30 caliber bullet, "probably a black out".
Needless to say, I was impressed.
Now where's that "yeah, right" emoji?
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
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"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Or a Hollywood doctor notion?
Sometimes the police shows sell the notion that cops automatically know whos innocent or guilty just by intuition without gathering evidence. Maybe super powers of knowledge and wisdom are also being ascribed to physicians?
All I know for sure is that it blew away all my respect and admiration for those CSI fellas. They have to run all kinds of tests to figure out this sort of thing, while this doctor just needed a quick glance.
Maybe they should take lessons from him.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
I never thought you could know the caliber of the shotgun just by looking one fired pellet
JAY
I was watching Live PD the other night and these two officers are looking for evidence after a shootout...they find some spent cases and one officer says "Yep, they look like 40 millimeter..."
― Douglas Adams
Adam J. McCleod
To derail my own thread (it's allowed), I have to share this. We're also watching Outlander, season 4 (you need a Starz subscription). The setting is the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in the late 1760s or early 1770s. In the scene, two of the characters, a man and a teenage boy, are hunting.
They see a young bull elk, and the boy shoots it. I think that elk did inhabit that area at that time, so I let that slide. However, the ground shrinkage was remarkable. Not only was the animal much smaller that I expected of a raghorn bull, but it transformed itself to a whitetail buck.
The way it was gutted was a whole 'nother story. Apparently the way to do it is to leave the animal laying on its side and just jab a long bladed knife into its belly and cut away. Amazingly, only blood gushed out. No crap from the stomach or intestines. I think I'll pass on using that technique.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
I've already seen some of the positions on immigration that I disagree with, and may have to quit watching when it gets to the gun control stuff. We'll see.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
But if I was one of these CSI types then I'd be extra extra suspicious!
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
We likes season 1 with all the cloak and dagger stuff. Season 2, though, is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. It's pretty much all politics. I'm not sure we'll finish it.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
It's kinda like watching COPS and you see an officer take a gun off of a bad guy and spends 5 minutes just trying to figure out how to clear it.
I will fear no evil: For I carry a .308 and not a .270
Regarding the magnet fishing video: I think I could go quite a while without hearing the word "dude" after listening to that. Wouldn't miss it a bit.
George Carlin
― Douglas Adams
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
― Douglas Adams
The "Smith & Wesson" 1911 from the movie "Dr. No" (It was on this afternoon)
The villain's henchman walks into the bedroom with a silenced 1911. Fires 6 rounds into the pile of pillows thinking it's Bond, on the bed. Bonds makes his presence known from behind the door, the henchman points a "slide locked" 1911 at him and Bond responds with, "That's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your six"
Also, the "press on" silencer Bond used in the same scene. No threaded barrel on his PPK, press it on while waiting, shoot the henchman twice, then just pull it off and put it back in your pocket