I recently attempted to drive clutch again. For those who
can, it is perfectly easy to depress the clutch while pressing the gas. For the
rest of us, it is difficult. Without automatic transmission the roads would be
far safer, bicycles and public transportation far more popular and spouses more
faithful. Whether or not you do so, if
you can’t drive stick you are not a competent human being and shouldn’t have a
car.
Guns today are different than they were. That is why all the
quick draw McGraw’s and shootemup Joes
are out there. I don’t mind the people who have been raised with guns and
understand the culture and behavior that requires. But those people are a very
small group, and you probably won’t hear from them.
All guns are artillery in the sense that their projectiles
have a parabolic trajectory. In order to have any range bullets have to go up
and come down. It is horrifying to see the Drill kids, called that because they
are proud that they don’t know how to hold a gun and hold it like a power drill.
All guns have to have an upward inclination in order to achieve any range, so
they kick up. In the past guns were heavy, in part to counter this recoil.
Now if you purchase a 22 caliber rifle for your twelve year
old. It doesn’t have much recoil and if she shoots it outside she probably
won’t need ear protection. But once she starts shooting 22 long rifle rounds,
with greater acceleration, she will notice it. Larger than that, either the
round or the acceleration is less fun. To circumvent this all military rifles,
from the M1 on, have a hole in the top of the barrel near the muzzle. The point of this is to counteract and lessen
the recoil. This means that the guns no longer have sufficient recoil to
reliably drive the reloading mechanism. The solution is to take the escaping
gas from the hole at the top of the gun and use that to push the mechanism loading
the next round. That is what gas operated means.
This is why all these morons and kids can shoot these heavy
rounds without grabbing sky. The problem is that legislating gas operated is
telling them they have to drive clutch and they are big pussies. But at least
if you want to shut down the mansplainers, just say “gas operated”.
