November 1, 2013 – LonelyMachines

Enter Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson is a bit of a running joke in Atlanta. If there’s a controversy of any sort, he’s there to lecture the cameras.

The Trayvon Martin shooting has given him a wealth of material to work with. As I warned a few months ago, he’s bringing a lawsuit to repeal OCGA 16-3-23.1, also known as Georgia’s “No Duty to Retreat” statute.

A person who uses threats or force in accordance with Code Section 16-3-21, relating to the use of force in defense of self or others, Code Section 16-3-23, relating to the use of force in defense of a habitation, or Code Section 16-3-24, relating to the use of force in defense of property other than a habitation, has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and use force as provided in said Code sections, including deadly force.

I don’t see how he has standing.

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Humor Ordnance

The Caliber Debate, Settled.

We’ve all endured the various debates about handgun cartridge effectiveness. We’re told the venerable .45 ACP is capable of physically unfeasible things, while the 9mm will annoy an assailant at best. While some folks have conjecture and anecdotes, I have physics on my side.

It’s all about black holes, specifically the Schwarzschild radius. That’s a measurement of how tightly a given object must be compressed in order for it to become a gravitational singularity. For example, the Sun would have to be compressed to a radius of roughly 3 kilometers before it became impossible for light to escape its gravity.

The Schwarzschild radius for the Earth? 9mm. Yeah, science!

You don’t get better stopping power than something that rips a hole in the fabric of spacetime.