The Gun Counter

When are they going to cancel this POS show (Steven Seagal, Lawman)??? How many times can they show the same crap again and again and think it's still interesting just because it has Steven Seagal in it??

GROAN!

According to my contacts in the JPSO, the day before yesterday wouldn't be soon enough. Of course, the guys I know are the ones driving the white Crown Vics, and not the unmarked SUVs, if you follow my drift...

I saw a clip of that show a while back. In my opinion he's a weapons grade asshole with no redeeming features whatsoever.

A bit like that Bounty Hunter guy, the dude with the mullet and the wife with a fake tan and huge plastic tits - they look like a cross between Crocodile Dundee, Sons of Anarchy and Billy Ray Cyrus but fight like Hannah Montana from what I saw

Seriously, why hasn't he had his ass kicked yet ? If he tried those tactics around some of the really bad places in the UK a 14 year old kid wearing a hooded sweatshirt would just ride up on a BMX bike and cap him in the head with an illegal handgun.

Cybrludite wrote:According to my contacts in the JPSO, the day before yesterday wouldn't be soon enough. Of course, the guys I know are the ones driving the white Crown Vics, and not the unmarked SUVs, if you follow my drift...

Ask your contacts if he purchased and paid to have those unmarked SUVs donated to the department for high ranking members of the reserves. You notice he's NEVER seen doing ANY paperwork and since they're in unmarked units, they're NEVER ASSIGNED priority calls as the responding units. They're functioning strictly as backup units and camera hogs.

I'd be MUCH more impressed if he was riding around in one of the Crown Vics instead of an unmarked SUV - although he has probably put in LOTS of hours working patrol too. If he's been doing this 20+ years, I would imagine he's worked with many different units in the department and since he doesn't hold a regular job, can work as many hours as he wants without worrying about income.

ANOTHER thing that REALLY pisses me off about the show is how they keep talking about "all those guns", and "getting guns off the streets", and 'guns this', and 'guns that', as if GUNS were the problem instead of the people handling them.

MORON

IIRC he shut down a couple of movies after local mobsters put the muscle on the set crews (think protection). Seagal himself couldn't leave town fast enough.

I'm not going to call him chicken, but he is very, very careful to protect his own a$$.

Rich wrote:IIRC he shut down a couple of movies after local mobsters put the muscle on the set crews (think protection). Seagal himself couldn't leave town fast enough.

I'm not going to call him chicken, but he is very, very careful to protect his own a$$.

Well, of course! I don't know anyone here that's a match for 230 grains of fast-moving copper-jacketed lead. Or even worse, 168 gr. of .308 Lake City Match Ammo that you'd never hear coming.

I write better reality show-type scripts than this for some of my fellow City of Heroes players to read, but then again I have better characters to work with than Steven Segal.

308Mike wrote:
ANOTHER thing that REALLY pisses me off about the show is how they keep talking about "all those guns", and "getting guns off the streets", and 'guns this', and 'guns that', as if GUNS were the problem instead of the people handling them.

MORON

In my experience, many martial arts guys don't like guns, because they don't think anyone can hurt them w.o. a gun... And, as long as everyone attacks them the way they get attacked in training, and no one is ever much larger or stronger or jacked up on meth, or faster than them, or more skilled, or carrying a knife, or able to surprise them, they may be right...

(I've always had a hard time w. most martial arts guys. I had friends into Judo and Tae Kwan Do, but they all viewed it as mere sport. I think a combat training class would be excellent, esp. one which emphasized using improvised and carried weapons, including firearms -- but I don't know of any... er, not many. CBIV, I think wrote about a Krav Maga instructor who included that, and I believe Bob Whelen, in DC, does -- Whelen is mostly known in strength circles, but at least his training does recognize the importance of phy. strength, from what I've heard.)

My oldest boy used to take tae kwon do lessons from a guy that reminded my of a short version of Martin Cove's character on the Karate Kid movie. You know, a real Barney Bada$$. Until the day one of the other fathers (who was about 20 years older, 6'4", around 280# i'd guess and a life long member of the local steelworkers union) beat the holy crap out of him in the parking lot one day because he had been picking on the guys kid.

ETA. Oh, and I kind of like the show. It would do better on Comedy Central though. And Seagal does get to carry a 1911.

Aglifter wrote:

308Mike wrote:

In my experience, many martial arts guys don't like guns, because they don't think anyone can hurt them w.o. a gun... And, as long as everyone attacks them the way they get attacked in training, and no one is ever much larger or stronger or jacked up on meth, or faster than them, or more skilled, or carrying a knife, or able to surprise them, they may be right...

(I've always had a hard time w. most martial arts guys. I had friends into Judo and Tae Kwan Do, but they all viewed it as mere sport. I think a combat training class would be excellent, esp. one which emphasized using improvised and carried weapons, including firearms -- but I don't know of any... er, not many. CBIV, I think wrote about a Krav Maga instructor who included that, and I believe Bob Whelen, in DC, does -- Whelen is mostly known in strength circles, but at least his training does recognize the importance of phy. strength, from what I've heard.)

I think martial arts can be useful, provided that the person fighting is adaptable and flexible to the situations at hand. It's certainly no substitute for a weapon, but without one it's better than nothing. Stephen Seagal is still a dick though.