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Brandishing an ultraviolet belt, a chain-knife and a shotgun with an under-mounted stake launcher, Blade vanquishes his foes with a moral absolutism absent from men at Harvard who enjoy “irony” and “satire.” If more men were like Blade then our collective feminine lives would be infinitely superior...
...Whiskey Company, was heading back to base along one of Iraq's most dangerous roads. The squad's convoy, towing a vehicle disabled by a roadside bomb, was running at slow speed, making it vulnerable to ambush. Sure enough, an insurgent with a rocket-propelled-grenade (RPG) launcher, Harding recalls, "suddenly appeared, whirled around and pointed the RPG. And all hell broke loose." The grenade pierced the window of the armored humvee on the driver's side, engulfing the occupants in smoke, blood and shrapnel. Harding yelled at the driver, Lance Corporal Andrew Halverson, one day shy of his 20th...
...government center. No one is injured. One humvee has a flat tire, and another has been hit with two RPGS, which were deflected by the armor. A Marine says his crew saw an RPG team running down an alley and tried to take it out with an automatic grenade launcher, but the weapon jammed...
...passes by several times without actually stopping to check out the vehicle. Frustrated, Lieut. Phillip Downs radios for permission to destroy the vehicle. Once he gets it, one of his men turns the abandoned car into a burning hulk with three volleys from his Mark 19 grenade launcher. Downs is sure he made the right choice, eliminating an unknown before it could do harm to U.S. forces. Whether the U.S. military can repeat that success across Iraq and around the globe with the forces at its disposal is less certain. And the cost of guessing wrong could be much higher...
...some guns prohibited by the ban could be made legal by eliminating their folding stocks, thus making them less convenient to transport and store but no less deadly. This is akin to allowing umbrellas but prohibiting folding umbrellas. With the exception of a grenade launcher, none of these features substantially increases a weapon’s deadliness; and civilians are already prohibited from owning grenades by the National Firearms Act of 1934. What these five features have in common is not that they are deadly but that they make rifles look more imposing and “assaulty...