Ready ... aim ... point ... talk - Gun at meeting reportedly rattles foreign delegates

The Times Union of Albany, NY ^ | 10:47 pm, Sunday, January 5, 2014 | James M. Odato

[edwinland]

The key is in the development of the slide. Slides should be kept simple and easily visual with limited information so that a speaker can effortlessly refer to a point on the slide with everyone knowing what part to look at. Slides with a lot of writing on them are discouraged. You do not want your audience to be lost in the slide while you are speaking. The speaker should always be the center of focus.

Totally agree. I've been saying the same thing for years! The WORST presentation starts with "this slide shows us several interesting things"

[VanShuyten]

Lasers work very well on “bedroom guns” for fast acquisition in dark rooms.

[grobdriver]

Whacking the screen with a laser doesn't have the same effect.

Or the desk of a nodding student - especially when you get the angle and swing just right, and the pointer hits the desk simultaneously along its length.

Thwack!

[NY.SS-Bar9]

On TV maybe, or in the movies, possibly in COD Ghosts.

Not in real life.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“If he removed the laser, reholstered the gun, and then proceeded to used the targeting laser as a laser pointer, then I wouldn’t really have a problem with it”

What if he unloaded and showed clear, then he would just be using a gun shaped laser pointer? Seriously the whole thing is absurb and inappropriate on a number of levels.

[lcms rev]

Seriously the whole thing is absurb and inappropriate on a number of levels.

Agreed. However, I still think there's a major difference between using a "gun-shaped laser pointer" and a laser pointer which can be (but is not currently) attached to a gun.

[Haiku Guy]

What if he unloaded and showed clear, then he would just be using a gun shaped laser pointer?

Don't try to get around Rule #1. That is how accidents happen.

[Daffynition]

Damn fool.

[Daffynition]

FFIW, he shouldn’t have a gun the police building.

But he won’t be prosecuted.

[Daffynition]

LOL

Delightful post LOL

[Paladin2]

Back in the day (long b4 cheap laser pointers) we had a lab laser (liberated from the lab for the weekend) that we shot out a ~3rd floor window at night across the street into a "straight man"'s hands (cupped to "hold it").

The straight man would approach (young) women on the street (sidewalk) and proceed to drop it to then engage them in conversation while "chasing" same.

Funny at the time as few had actual personal experience with a laser dot.

(Entertaining kitties is a regression...;-) )