home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!michael.apple.com
- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Gun blast noise in a car?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.220818.27993@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:01:03 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Circle 'C' Shellfish Ranch, Shores-of-the-Pacific, California
- Lines: 49
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
-
- In article <199212200619.AA13742@cherokee.advtech.uswest.com> kdlin@advtech.uswest.com (David Lin) writes:
- #In article <9212170559.AA02978@hpfcso.HP.COM> post@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (David Post) writes:
-
- #On a related question, do you guys think you would have sufficient
- #time to react? The car jackers, that I've heard of, often use a brick
- #to smash your windshield and then point a gun at you before you have
- #the time to react to the smash. The whole thing can occur within
- #two seconds after you see the car jacker; e.q., someone jumped out
- #a minivan in front of you, smashed your windshield, and pointed a gun
- #at you. So what's the solution?
-
- Someone jumps out in front of me with a brick and throws it at my
- windshield, I'm going to lean over onto the passenger seat so that
- the dash shields me from {glass, brick, stuff} and my foot is going
- to push the gas pedal to the floor... He will either: 1) be run
- over since he was close enough to throw the brick and right in front. or
- 2) be scared shitless as this car goes flying past him.
-
- I think I'll have some very good chance of hitting some other parked
- car, but I hope that I'll be able to recover enough to avoid a direct
- incapacitating (to the car) hit. What would then follow would be a
- series of quick glances out the window to keep moving enough to get
- out of gun range, while mostly keeping my head down...
-
- Ought to make one heck of a mess one way or the other ... should get
- a fair amount of attention ... may get me killed ... but I'm not
- going to submit to any armed thug. I've got a 2000 lb bullet, and I'm
- going to use it!
-
- In the scenario you stated, the perp ought to end up crushed between
- my car and the mini-van ... I would then hit reverse and do a 180 as
- soon as I could. I should have about 5 miles before the lack of a
- radiator takes out my engine ...
-
- Do most car jackers use a 9mm? And what level of threat is a 9mm after
- passing through the sheet metal of a car? (i.e. is it still likely to
- be lethal after passing through {hood at a grazing angle, dash materials,
- etc...)?
-
- --
-
- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
-
- 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
- genius, power and magic in it.' - Goethe
-
- I am not responsible nor is anyone else. Everything is disclaimed.
-
-
-