h a l f b a k e r yI like this idea, only I think it should be run by the government.
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This would be a range for people who carry guns in their car and who want to practise shooting without the inconvenience for getting out of the cars.
They would stop at an armoured booth and buy any ammunition they need and specify the type of targets they want. Then they would drive through the
range and shoot at whatever takes their fancy. As they leave the range they are handed a score card from another armoured booth and offered ammunition to replace whatever they used previously - therefore keeping them safe from attack.
Targets could include: people visiting fast food restaurants, people visiting polling booths and people attending gun control rallies.
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Just don't forget the Hearing Protection. 'Boom' go the guns in enclosed spaces in movies and then the actors whisper to one another - laughable. |
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Hearing protection could be sold or hired at the first armoured booth. Just in case people take them off on the range, or opt out, there would probably need to be a big, clear sign that says "You are leaving the firing range now" at the second armoured booth. |
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You could recreate targets from famous films. I can imagine Easy Rider being a popular one. |
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mad, totaly mad... still I cant resist the urge to give it a plus vote... |
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You should open a chain of them, I will open a glass repair shop next to it. We could make a fortune off of it. |
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UnaBubba ---- it should just have one bang. They still use muskets. But great joke anyway. |
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You could have one part that looks like a trafic jam with targets in each (empty) car and you shoot the ones that honk there horn. |
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Individual with highest score gets free trip to Pakistan. + |
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Even in the days of single-shot firearms, a well-armed individual could still shoot pretty quickly. Blackbeard the Pirate (Edward Teach) is said to have carried eight pistols on his belt when going into battle. No doubt after barrel he'd have to retrieve them from the deck. |
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I thought this would be an idea to shoot at drivers who have
their arm leaning out the window. (We call them one-tanned-
taxi-driver-hand here) |
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And Mahatama's saying its non-violently baked in some parts
of
the world. |
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Nice to meet some new names! Welcome to HB. [sdm,
imburton,
RobertKid, mahatama, alx, and Aristo]! |
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...better late than never :-( |
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What's HBGC e- p s++ g- B++ A+ |
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thanks for bumping this, I would have missed it. [+] |
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I'm all for more training for those who would carry, but I think this would be a bad idea. |
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Not that it's a bad idea for the Halfbakery, but that it would be unwise to encourage such behavior. |
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But let's take the idea to it's limit. |
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Build one of those toll road shortcuts that are increasingly popular, and zone it as a lawless zone, without legal consequences for this kind of activity. |
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Then encourage all the hotheaded fools to use that shortcut, and have them eliminate each other with no danger to the rest of us. |
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// a lawless zone, without legal consequences // |
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Cf. Alan Sillitoe's novel "Travels in Nihilon" |
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Yeah, and Delany as well in " Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia ". |
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Wow, I was ABOUT to bun it until you said "people attending
gun control rallies". You seriously had me until there. |
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// people visiting polling booths // |
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More deserving pity than condemnation ... |
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// and people attending gun control rallies. // |
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I'll wager this idea is baked long ago in, of all places, Nevada. I'm not going to search for it though, so it's only a wager. |
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// Wot, no churchgoers?? // |
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The odd thing is that that happened in Tejas. Of all the states for somebody to be unarmed in - I mean for crying out loud, an armed neighbor responded. |
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I'm not fully cognizant of that states gun laws, but I know that it's a bigger crime to have a little bit of marijuana in your vehicle than a loaded gun on the front seat. |
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[+] This idea might be somewhat sensitive for some people given the recent events that have happened in the US. But idea was created before 9/11 and every horrible thing that has happened since then. So maybe it's not fair to retro-actively criticize the idea. |
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I still gave bread because it would be good sport.
It has sort of a biathlon feel to it. The score could
be # of target hits / time to complete course, to
encourage people to keep moving or at least roar
off between target stations then screech to a halt.
There could be categories for 1 handed pistol
shooting and up thru the sunroof rifle shooting.
Also doubles where there is a shooter and a driver.
The whole course could have a Deathrace 2000 /
Mad Max type theme. |
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I think the drive on the left folks might have an
unfair advantage here because most people are
right handed. I suppose that balances out all the
disadvantages, so I am fine with it. |
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There's scope for this to become a series of Olympic events ... |
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"And the Gold in the Drive By Shooting event goes to the U.S. team of Leroy Williams and Juan Ramirez from South Central L.A. .... " |
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