I’ve Got A Theory Of My Own
By Mitch Berg
An observation from The Blaze:
In nearly all movies involving “gangsters” with guns, you’re bound to see the firearm cocked sideways. It was even a joke in the movie Date Night where Steve Carell’s character calls this position the “kill shot.”
Methodist gangster illustrating the “John Woo Grip”.
A former U.S. Marine Corps marksmanship instructor thinks there could be some merit to that logic, according to the Daily Mail.
In an effort to save time, make a getaway and maintain some accuracy, Davis said the method being used is called “flash sight picture,” which aims down the side of the gun. It isn’t necessarily the most precise, but it can get the job done.
My theory – which is both utterly free of evidence and, I suspect, absolutely correct – is this: during the 1980s, as the drug war was ramping up, the CIA infiltrated gangs in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Miami and along the border, and began teaching gangs the grip. They also got to famed Hong-Kongese (Hong Kongian? Hong Konger?) filmmaker John Woo, and got him to glorify the sideways grip in countless film shootouts.
The motivation, of course, was to save police. It has had the concomitant effect of saving countless gangster targets over the years, while killing or maiming countless innocent bystanders who were sitting in second-floor apartments 45 degrees off the line of fire. One Minneapolis cop once told me, back in the eighties, that the safest place to be in a gang shootout was the target; actual participants seemed to be very rarely harmed in gang shootouts,then as now.
We can thank the John Woo grip for this.
Here’s a fairly definitive take on the subject.
He’s Canadian, but he seems to know what he’s talking abooot.
March 18th, 2014 at 1:11 pm
All they need is The HoMeBoY NyTe SyTeSTM (wink)
http://www.thegunzone.com/glock/glock-gag.html
March 18th, 2014 at 1:56 pm
She’s cute. AND she has proper trigger finger placement, so we know she’s an actress, as hardly anyone who would seriously consider this using this grip would know (or care about) what proper finger placement is.
March 18th, 2014 at 3:14 pm
Hood rats shoot their 9’s sidewayz ‘cuz dat da way dey come in da box, yo!
March 18th, 2014 at 5:35 pm
This hood rat never got a “9” out of a box, um, yo.
“Emery”, please cut & paste (without attribution) some passage or photo that will put Swiftee in his place.
March 18th, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Canadians? What do they know about pistol shooting?
Watch and learn (at about the 1:05 mark).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBEbC4NzD0o
March 18th, 2014 at 9:42 pm
Last year I read a book on modern astronomy, which had said that both Neptune and Pluto were predicted long before they had ever been seen because of peculiarities in the orbits of the other outer planets. It made me think that planets weren’t so very different from people. Seeing what happened around them was enough to tell you where they were and what they were.
March 19th, 2014 at 7:39 am
MMM, savor that putdown, Swiftee. (And me too. I guess. ‘Cause I’m not ‘teh’ smart like other commenters who understand analogies.)
Last year I read a book about Division I athletes, which ‘had’ said they favored ‘Sports Management’ as a major. This was peculiar because the NCAA doesn’t record what majors athletes choose. It also noted another peculiarity: very few Division I schools offer ‘Sports Management’ as a major.
But please tell me more about this “modern” astronomy book. Is that like how a Capricorn shouldn’t date a Pisces unless the moon is in the seventh star? I get so confused.
March 19th, 2014 at 8:10 am
Sounds like Emery is nursing a really bad case of penis envy, Sef. He hates everyone who’s johnson didn’t grow out of their neck. We see it a lot with lefties, although some of them seem to come to grips with it pretty well.
March 19th, 2014 at 8:22 am
Sef, asked; *dik* delivered:
““Emery”, please cut & paste (without attribution) some passage or photo that will put Swiftee in his place.”
“…. and Pluto were predicted long before they had ever been seen because of peculiarities in … It made me think that planets weren’t so very different from people. Seeing what happened around them was enough to tell you where they were and what they were.”
http://85.17.122.177/chapter.php/114590/27/Crais_-_Lullaby_Town.html
It’s evidently one of his favorite plagerizations:
http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=33377
Dude is transparent as glass….probably could never please his daddy.
March 19th, 2014 at 8:32 am
Bane claimed it made sense for drive by hits because the hot shells eject up to reflect off the roof and fall to the floor instead of going down the drivers neck.
March 19th, 2014 at 9:43 am
While waiting for my comments to clear moderation, a bit of news that will make Mitch smile.
March 19th, 2014 at 9:46 am
“S.C. pub sparks outrage for sign calling gun owners losers”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/18/sc-pub-sparks-outrage-sign-calling-gun-owners-lose/?fdhksaa
Dude had 3 reviews on Yelp until yesterday…up over 1000 today. Bad idea; bad.
March 19th, 2014 at 10:56 am
AngryClown could be a *dik*, but there’s no denying he was clever. Now, in his place we have two piles of insipid stupidity in DG & Emery…and Emery is too dim to even come up with original stupidity.
I miss AngryClown.
March 19th, 2014 at 1:16 pm
I miss AngryClown.
As do I. Once people understood he’s all about “chain-yanking” as opposed to personal affronts, the guy was hilarious.
March 20th, 2014 at 6:56 am
swiftee, I read about that ignorant moron pub owner. It was too funny that he identified himself as a conservative Democrat that has had a C&C permit for several years. Me thinks that part, may have been a subterfuge by the left wing media.
March 20th, 2014 at 7:02 am
Further on the SC pub owner story; I saw it on The Blaze. One of the commenters on the story posted that some idiot, liberal ownerof a fairly successful cafe in PA did the same thing (posted a sign stating Anyone carrying firearms, even with a permit was not welcome) a few years ago. The media coverage on the story included video of him high fiving several of his fellow commies. He said that within three months, his business dropped so much that he sold his license and the site is still empty.
March 20th, 2014 at 8:09 am
Thanks for the morning laugh, Swiftee!
I’d say unbelievable that the douche has been caught multiple times cutting and pasting others words/thinking and trying to pass them off as his own, yet continues to pretend he’s somehow ‘teh’ smart guy in the room. But this is the Obama era, when pretending to be smart counts for much more than actual reality.
March 20th, 2014 at 9:09 am
In my experience, people that put on a show to convince others they are (tough; smart; wealthy & etc.) are usually compensating for a deep seated sense of shame and a lack of self-esteem.
Sometimes, with men, growing up with an over bearing father results in making up a circle of friends and personal acquaintances with impressive credentials (see Penigma) or, as with Emery, working to ascribe a desirable trait to themselves directly, through lies. It’s pretty sad.
I have no idea what went wrong with DG.
March 20th, 2014 at 9:13 am
Boss, when that fool held up that CCP I’m glad I wasn’t drinking coffee.
I work with a lot of guys that went to Clemson; one of them told me that the owner spends a lot of time out on the patio getting snockered with the college kids. May be a case of wet brain.
I have no doubt this will hurt his business; this is South Carolina.
March 21st, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Totally believe it. Have you noticed how outrageously long the super-impractical trend of buckling ones pants around ones thighs has lasted? I’ve been convinced for a while that the cops are behind the “show your behind” trend. Hard to run with your pants falling off! Pretty crafty, coppers!