Posted on 09/22/2016 1:04:37 PM PDT by servo1969
Raise it up high enough and you can place ball turrets, (belly and dorsal), on it.
No real weapons of course, but some loud electrical noises as the turrets raise or lower themselves from the vehicle, accompanied by a mechanical voice, a la Robocop, saying “You are ordered to disperse, you have three seconds to comply”, would probably induce the crowd to disperse. LOL!
O.K. ... just letting my inner six year old play for a bit.
Also disparity of force comes into play. You might be able to use greater force than othersise if you have disparity of force issues on your side.
Surprise attack/ambush, being just one of many examples.
Exactly. Which is why you go as soon as they start doing anything to other folks vehicles. You dont have to wait to be a victim first.
Well said. You captured my thoughts in a very pithy manner.
I thought a hit in reverse could deploy airbags too.
Crap I hadnt thought about this.
My understanding is that air bag sensors are in the front bumper and in the doors for cars with side air bags.
From www.safercar.gov
Frontal air bags are generally designed to deploy in “moderate to severe” frontal or near-frontal crashes, which are defined as crashes that are equivalent to hitting a solid, fixed barrier at 8 to 14 mph or higher. (This would be equivalent to striking a parked car of similar size at about 16 to 28 mph or higher.)
Thanks, interesting, good to know.
The Range Rover guy had a totally different scenario, which was bikers, most likely not at all affiliated with the dem party, Sorros, the BLM or any other racist bunch.
The cops in Baltimore should never have been charged with anything, George Zimmerman (you know, the “white” hispanic), never should have been charged. Much the same as the folks I just mentioned, if anyone kills in self defense a race rioter, they will be charged.
Apply the brake sparingly, to create drag on the freely turning wheel, forcing some transfer of torque to the one on solid ground. Coordinate simultaneously applying brake pedal and gas pedal to maximize traction.
Twitter can do without me, as I can certainly do without Twitter.Reynolds was later reinstated.ANOTHER UPDATE: Erik Wemple of the Washington Post emails that “Keep driving” would have been a better formulation of what I was trying to say. It would have been, and in only two words instead of three. But I’ve had over 580,000 tweets, and they can’t all be perfect.
Here's Reynolds being interviewed by Hugh Hewitt on this subject:
http://www.hughhewitt.com/glenn-reynolds-instapundit-reacts-suspension-twitter/
From that interview:
HH: If you had it to do over again, would you post the same tweet?GR: Oh, I don’t know, maybe, maybe not. Probably not. It’s got me on the radio with you this morning talking about it instead of having my normal morning.
HH: Yeah.
GR: But I have to say I don’t apologize for the sentiment. I think that this tactic of blocking people on the interstate and surrounding cars is itself violent. It is threatening. It is not peaceful protest, and it should not be permitted.
After seeing that tweet, I was imagining what it would be like to actually be in that situation. I would avoid protest areas like the plague, but one never knows if something like that could occur by some terrible chance.
Praying that never happens!
Same here.
And I see a lot of comments around here about shooting or running over people. But even when such actions are done in justifiable self-defense it must be very hard on the shooter afterwards.
Now, now Reggy forgave those thugs, we should too.
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