Kuntzman Part II

| June 15, 2016

Gersh Kuntzman

AW1Ed sends us a link to Gersh Kuntzman’s latest piece in which he complains To gun lovers, you can’t even have an opinion on assault rifles — unless it’s theirs. Here’s the proof. Apparently, he got beat up pretty bad by his readers and, by golly, he’s not going to take it;

I certainly received many many emails from gun owners who legitimately quibbled with some of my conclusions. But the majority of email senders trained their laser sights on my masculinity — often in graphic terms that would sound more appropriate in a magazine about erectile dysfunction or an ad for Depends.

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[I]f masculinity is defined by the power to commit violence on a wide scale, I proudly choose femininity. At one time, “being a man” meant standing up for what you believe in — and against injustice. By that definition, we need more real men in power taking on bullies like the NRA, which seeks to bolster the Second Amendment by shutting down opponents’ right to the First. We can’t even debate guns in this country, thanks to the gun lobby.

He claims that he supports the 2d Amendment, but with “strict regulations” I’m thinking that he wouldn’t be as supportive for “strict regulations” for the First Amendment, though. He goes off on some needless diatribe about an “atomic version of the AR-15” and how we shouldn’t allow folks to buy one of those. This AR-style of rifle doesn’t have an atomic version, so I’m not going to worry about it.

Yes, I’m a wimp. I simpered because my experience with the AR-15 bruised me, body and spirit. But there’s nothing unmanly about reminding my readers that mass murder is much easier to commit with a semi-automatic killing machine than it is with a hammer.

If that makes me a girl, well, maybe we should have a girl running the country.

Yes, you are a wimp. The AR-style rifle isn’t the bruising beast that you claim it is. It’s the person that fires it that makes it terrifying, not the alloy and plastic inert object. How about we focus it on keeping it out of the hands of potential criminals instead of ripping it from everyone’s hands.

By the way, that last line says more about you than anything else you wrote.

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A Proud Infidel®™

KUNTzman THE BABBLING pus-nutted canndyassed metrosexual poodle turd of a QUEEF is even more devoid of logic, facts, and common sense than a certai Berserkelyiite known to this blog.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

At least he admits that he’s a big, dripping, wart laden, pus sacking scaredy cat.

Maybe the operation to complete his de-manning isn’t far off…

I really shouldn’t post after API – it causes me to bring out the other thesaurus.

HoneyBadger

I don’t have to worry about dipping giving me cancer with this guy around

68W58

Note: pro RKBA types “legitimately quibbled” with his nonsense. Not thoroughly reduced it to wreckage based on a more complete understanding of the issues and the mechanics of the weapon involved-which is what actually happened

AW1Ed

He and Pajama Boy can snuggle up and discuss this over a cup of hot chocolate.

Reminds me I need to clean my AR. And buy more ammo. Ex, you want to learn to shoot one, I’m your huckleberry.

Ex-PH2

Smooches, AW1Ed!

AW1Ed

Ah, shucks. *kicks rock*

😉

Eden

Me, too! Me, too!

Roh-Dog

What an asshole, “we need more real men in power taking on bullies like the NRA, which seeks to bolster the Second Amendment by shutting down opponents’ right to the First.”
Dude, cite one example. I’ll be over hear with my Jame-o and giner waiting on an answer.

B Woodman

Don’t hold your breath waiting. just saying.

The Other Whitey

You know what pisses me off the most about CUNTzman? His abhorrent horseshit about “temporary PTSD.” That this chickenshit candyass peckerwood douchecunt would try to claim that he suffered anything like that miserable condition just because he’s a giant fucking bipedal yeast infection with a beard disgusts and infuriates me. I have suffered from PTS for years. It’s common in firefighters, as we see lots of horrible shit. Also common in police officers for the same reason. I know I don’t need to remind anyone of how it frequently afflicts combat vets. And how about 9/11 survivors, or victims of violent crime, especially rape, for whom it’s also sadly common? This fucking queerbait asshole wants to compare a couple of loud noises–WITH EAR PROTECTION–to THAT? FUCK THAT GUY!!! He thinks he was “traumatized?” This cocksucker doesn’t know what trauma is. See a little girl sobbing because her house burned down and they lost everything, including the cat, which you found char-broiled in what was left of her bedroom. Stuff 4×4 dressings into the gaping laceration of a guy who’s still stuck in his wadded-up car as his arterial bleed sprays your sleeve and he begs you not to let him die. Tell a mother that her 3-year-old that she found face-down in the swimming pool is dead. Stand back from a young woman with a bruised face and torn clothing wanting to help her, but having to keep your distance because she was beaten and raped an hour ago and is now terrified of men. Tell a wife who just saw you stop CPR on her husband of 43 years that you’re sorry and you did all you could. Pull a 20-year-old young man out of a structure fire and perform CPR until you collapse from exhaustion, and then find out that all you accomplished was keeping some of his organs viable for transplant. Yes, these are all personal experiences of mine, slapdick. Check a few of those boxes, CUNTzman, then come talk to me about how traumatized you are, you fucking cocksucking piece of roach shit! I can’t believe… Read more »

A Proud Infidel®™

KUNTzman the candyassed mouse QUEEF isn’t worth a squirt of a real Man’s piss

FatCircles0311

You better believe he did it simply to patronize veterans. It’s what the left can’t help thsemlves from doing.

UpNorth

If you didn’t send that very post to Kuntzman as an email, you really should. I agree with everything you said, and he needs to read it. Though, I’m sure by now that he’s set up his inbox so he doesn’t have to read anything that doesn’t figuratively pet him on the head and say “now, now”.

HMC Ret

TOW, you nailed it. Probably the worst trauma he has experienced is when he/she starts menstruation each month or Starbucks raises prices on his triple whatever.

Actually, though, maybe the beginning of each menstruation isn’t traumatizing to him. He at least knows he isn’t pregnant that month.

A Proud Infidel®™

KUNTzman strikes me as the type who would go screaming apeshit crazy over his @10 foot-long-named cup of overpriced coffee being one and a half degrees too cold with the suspicion they DID NOT put GHO-free organic soy milk in his shit.

SsgRet

Your post should win an award

Jay

you forgot ‘cum dumpster’. just sayin’.

streetsweeper

Amen, TOW! You have nailed it, brudda! I’d like for this piece of rat shit to explain his “temporary PTS” to my adult daughter (who has moments and me and my wife whom do our utmost best to help her) while I *impatiently* wait to flush his girlie ass down the sewer pipe of life. *spit* Piss on him if he was on fire? Oh hell NO! I’d spray a tanker load of flammable liquids on his pansy ass…Fuck him.

Jay

BTW – TOW : I salute you; firefighters are some of the most courageous guys there are. My late wife and her Mom used to make extra plates of food and also bake cakes and cookies at Thanksgiving and Christmas for me to take to the two local stations in our area. the guys helped our families out so many times, from helping my father-in-law who had fallen down a flight of stairs and couldnt get to his feet, to actually carrying my wife’s wheelchair up our steps once, before we got a ramp… and that is in addition to doing all the stuff you described. God bless you and yours.

Aysel

I wouldn’t call this…..person….a metrosexual, that’s an insult to metros. I’ve met some metros that were way more masculine that this sissified dandy (to borrow an older phrase). What a fucking weak kneed pussy.

Ex-PH2

GERSH KUNTZMAN got his feelings hurt because he was not only corrected on his blatant errors and his lack of facts about the AR-15, he was also outed for flatout lying.

I do not care if it hurt his feelings to be told, to his face, that he is a lying jar of marshmallow. He’s an attention whore who can’t accept criticism. He did NOT do his research properly, nor did he suffer the actual ‘bruisings’ that he complained about. The videos of children firing off the AR-15 demonstrated quite clearly that he is blatantly full of pure shit.

The one thing I find the most deeply offensive about him and others like him is that they fail to accept that we all have a choice in this matter of GUNNZZZ!

No one is forcing any of them to own or even look at one. The 2nd Amendment gives us the RIGHT TO CHOOSE to own or to not even think about touching GUNNZZZ!

That is a major, epic fail on their part, which makes their entire argument invalid.

Army Sergeant

Hey asshole, leave girls out of it. We’re tougher than you are. You’re just a eunuch.

A Proud Infidel®™

I think you just insulted eunuchs everywhere, they’re ten times manlier than KUNTzman!

Ex-PH2

My cat is a neutered male. There is nothing that smells worse than male cat musk. The neutered male cat may still do what’s call dry spraying, which is the cheetah stud dance and twitching the tail, but there’s no musk.

And my neutered male cat is more of a GUY than this GERSH KUNTZMAN, who is a complete waste of the 10 minutes his mother took out of her life.

MSG Eric

I wonder how much the DNC will pay him for his hurt and suffering during this “traumatic” event he performed in order to be a journalist?

He’s obviously already on their payroll, will they give him a bonus for being extra wussified because he shot a firearm?

FatCircles0311

I bet he’s already receiving PTSD benefits from the VA.

MSG Eric

I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.

Jay

Yes and he filed under his REAL name, Joe Shit the Rag Man.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

VA – Vagina Association.

FatCircles0311

Such a hero standing against the injustice of constitutionally protected civil rights by insulting fellow Americans that have done nothing to him except inform him of how ignorant his demands for tyranny are. If only such MEN stood post in the defense of the nation!

sgt. vaarkman 27-48th TFW

he’s voting for Hillary obviously, since he has bought into her stinkin’ bovine manure.
He also doesn’t know what the NRA is about either.
Wonder if he ever heard of responsible gun ownership and safety, which are the themes of the NRA, I don’t read anywhere that the NRA are protecting the criminal element and nut jobs….
This doodie is an emasculated yuppie fudgepackin’,anal orifice, metrosexual dip stick, brainwashed progressive butthole surfing pickle puffer,& liar, heeeeere’s Gersh Kuntzman an embarrassment to men & ladies and journalist around the world….his boss should take on a Trump like persona and say to him “you’re fired”
Kuntzman is really an acronym for “Kan’t Understand normal thinking, zero manhood”
Must suck to be him since no one seems to be taking his point of view.

Perry Gaskill

Kuntzman tries to butch up with the NYC demi-beard, but sometimes it’s just so hard trying to be a guy.

I don’t mind spirited debate, but many correspondents told me that even expressing an opinion about today’s high-powered weaponry is off-limits to those of us who don’t own such guns.

Translation: I don’t mind debate except when mean people disagree with me, and I have to write a whiney follow-up column.

Besides, if masculinity is defined by the power to commit violence on a wide scale, I proudly choose femininity. At one time, “being a man” meant standing up for what you believe in — and against injustice.

Translation: If you’re not in favor of trashing the 2nd Amendment, you are in favor of injustice and shooting a bunch of people in a gay nightclub.

In a saner world, Kuntzman would be arrested for sexual assault on a syllogism.

The gun debate is also a gender war…Yes, I’m a wimp. I simpered because my experience with the AR-15 bruised me, body and spirit…If that makes me a girl, well, maybe we should have a girl running the country.

Translation: Kuntzman is a party animal when shopping for shoes…

MSG Eric

“In a saner world, Kuntzman would be arrested for sexual assault on a syllogism.”

hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe. You said “Gism”. hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe.

Poetrooper

“If that makes me a girl, well, maybe we should have a girl running the country.”

Will somebody tell him to get his head out of his ass?

We DO have a girl running the country…

MSG Eric

ell oh ell.

Joseph Williams

Someone tell Nicki That He’s Baaack. Even after his lies are pointed out to him. Gresh Kuntzman still tries to blame everyone but himself. Has your editor read all the rebuttals. If you had fired a M-60 you would still be curled up in a corner claiming a broken shoulder.Stop with the PTSD claim! There is no such thing as temporaly PTSD. Joe PS Forty Nine Years and still the assorted systoms of PTSD. Joe

streetsweeper

Amen, Joseph!

HMC Ret

” … maybe we should have a girl running the country.”

Actually I wouldn’t mind a girl running the country provided she enforced the laws of the land, the Constitution and Bill of Rights and other documents. That automatically will probably disqualify wideload, who I believe will further gut both documents.

And, while I wouldn’t mind a woman running the country, I don’t want a pussy running the country. There is a great difference.

Re gun rights, I believe Obama will by decree attempt to have all firearms registered, will impose massive taxes on both firearms and ammunition and take other steps to crush our right to own firearms. When will he do this? After the November general election. Everyone feel OK with paying half a buck for each 22LR?

OWB

Note to Kuntzman:

Lying publicly about easily verifiable facts does not make you a man. It just very publicly identifies you as a liar.

That is all.

Pat

Nail on the head. He’s simply a liar, i.e. unethically attempting to further an unpopular agenda. Lower than whale poop.

Dave Hardin

I usually have some sarcastic remark to post, but what can I say about a guy that calls himself a pussy?

He claims the NRA shuts down any debate on the topic. The he goes on to exercise this right to do exactly that.

I thought maybe he would try to pretend he is not a pussy so I could at least get in the game. I got nuttin, nada, zip, zilch.

Pinto Nag

Gersh, just because you would willingly die on your knees does not give you the right to dictate that same fate for everyone else. I WILL FIGHT for my own life, and I will arm myself so I have the greatest chance of survival possible.

Oh, and by the way, I’m a girl, and I can handle guns that would drive you into hysterics. I know how to use them, when to use them, and I am damn sure willing to use them. So don’t lump me in with the clawless and toothless pussies you call ‘girls.’

Hondo

(Foghorn Leghorn voice)

This boy – to use the term loosely – ain’t nothin’ but a namby-pamby, panty waist, ‘fraid to breathe, chicken-chokin’ mutha. That is, if he didn’t turn in his “chicken” along with his fraudulently-issued ManCard.

Lurker Curt

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAQAAA!!!

The Dead Man

I’ve got a 90lbs dripping wet and carrying a pair of bricks that can shoot my M91/30 and WASR10 without complaining like this twit. If the CAR15 is hurting him, he’s either shot himself in the foot or has brittle bone disease.

Yef

“I’ve got a 90lbs dripping wet and carrying a pair of bricks that can shoot my M91/30”

Huuumm, me speaka your languageshi. My 90 lbs just carry a pair of quarter bricks, but she can shoot my AR15 like a pro.

Can beat anyone on the magazine change drill too.

The Dead Man

I apparently missed “Korean friend” in there while adding to the joke. Oops. Seriously though, 5 foot at the best and rail thin and she handles guns better than him.

F@ckyocouch

“I simpered because my experience with the AR-15 bruised me, body and spirit.”

Actually, that is the epitome of non-sexual, sissy-ass defeatism. No sex lays claim to that. Which sex would want to? My dog would take one sniff of this dude and state: “I’ve said no to better.”

A Proud Infidel®™

I bet that KUNTzman rejects Justin Beiber music as being “too masculine”as well. My late 60-ish Mother in Law still goes deer hunting every year and scores one or two as well. She uses a .243 which would likely make KUNTzman curl up in the fetal position and cry after he shit and pissed himself. IMHO ONE GOOD THING out of all this is that the leftard moonbats are parading their colors like never before and turning more and more people OFF to them.

Jay

Somebody PLEASE get this wee willie wanker to try out a Lapua. I’ll pay for the one round he will fire before he starts foaming at the mouth, soiling his panties and flailing his limbs about/ I’ll even kick in twenty bucks for a video clip of the horror!

Pinto Nag

Please don’t waste that bit of heaven on this smudge; I’ve always wanted to shoot a Lapis!

Pinto Nag

Lapau. Damn auto-correct…

Yef

You do realize that Justin Biebers last album is very popular in the Army right now, right?

A Proud Infidel®™

As what, a rifle and pistol target?

O-4E

You would think a Jew of all people would understand the potential threat of disarming the populace and leaving the only high power weaponry in the hands of the cops and military

I don’t trust the government, and government, or my fellow man that much

It shocks me that so many other people do

MSG Eric

He’s only a pseudo Jewish Princess.

Hondo

Did you say Jewish Princess? (probably NSFW or around the perpetually offended)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yDarQW7UZc

(smile)

Poetrooper

That is something that never ceases to amaze me, O-4E, that loyalty to liberalism that Jews possess that is even stronger than their own sense of survival. The despicable extension of that is their unwillingness to provide themselves with the means to protect their own children.

I view that with the same degree of contempt as do the warriors of Israel.

HMC Ret

Never understood that either

Combat Historian

I’ll keep it simple: FUCK YOU, KUNT !!!

Ex-PH2

GERSH KUNTZMAn strikes me as the type of whiny little shit who cries over paper cuts.

I’m amazed at his lack of understanding of the simple word ‘FREEDOM’. WE have the FREEDOM TO CHOOSE whether or not WE want to own or use guns of any kind. WE have that RIGHT in the 2ND AMENDMENT.

NOWHERE IN THE US CONSTITUTION OR IN ANY FEDERAL OR STATE LEGISLATION DOES IT SAY YOU ARE REQUIRED TO OWN A WEAPON OR EVEN LEARN TO USE ONE, IF YOU DON’T WANT TO.

GERSH KUNTZMAN and his ilk refuse to address or admit to that simple principle. Their overt reaction is that they are forced into a corner to own a weapon, willy-nilly, which is completely NOT true.

GERSH KUNTZMAN does NOT have the right to take my CHOICE away from me or anyone else in this country.

Is there anyone who disagrees with what I said? Anyone?

Perry Gaskill

His is a sanctimonious construct, Ex. People like Kuntzman profess to support diversity, but in reality they support a narrow world view.

Without putting too fine a point on it, they’re the kind of self-centered people who think if they see no need for a firearm then no one else should see a need either; if I take the subway, you don’t need a car; if I live in an apartment in the city and am childless, you shouldn’t live in the suburbs and have kids. And so forth.

A lot of this isn’t about being tolerant of the differences among us. It’s about their need to tell the rest of us what to do.

For what it’s worth, it’s been my experience that, more often than not, those most aggressive about wanting to be in charge are those least likely to be very good at it.

Just An Old Dog

I’m anxiuosly awaiting his next articles about using a Chainsaw, a Jackhammer or a weedeater.
What a pusst

Jay

you mean a Deadly Assault Weedeater with a Shoulder Thing That Goes Up? OMG!!! The horror!!!

A Proud Infidel®™

You mean a FULLY AUTOMATIC Weedeater? OH, THE HORROR!!!

Eggs

I don’t think he’s even up to the level of a letter opener, but that’s just me ?

USMCMSgt (Ret)

I’ll bet he shits himself whenever he’s confronted with having to change a tire or mowing the lawn.

Claw

Somewhere in this whole incredible shitty mess is a joke about the contents of the lint trap on the dryer having more testosterone in it after my wife gets done running a load of her skivvies through it than the KUNTzman ever had in his entire life, but I just can’t put my finger on it.

Somebody help me out here.

Eden

Well, I did say I have more testosterone in my little finger than he has in his whole body, but your wife’s dryer lint may have me beat.

Jay

GUYS – can I ask a favor? Just consider this, and if you think I’m screwed up, fine. But the guys at Franks Gun Shop ( I will put a link ) are getting tons of hate because the owners thought that this scumbag leftard would do an honest interview and video. Of course the scumbags edited and chopped it, like Couric did, to utterly alter the whole thing and make it seem anti gun. Yes, the guys were naive; but look at their history, they have done everything from putting people in touch with congress critters to be active in fighting anti gun laws, to pointing customers to a “fund me” site for a friend’s pit bull diagnosed with cancer. But instead of looking at what they have done n the past, a lot of keyboard commandos are damning them hoping they go out of business and other vile stuff, just because they trusted the wrong person. IF you think that is undeserved,please consider stopping by their FB page and leaving some kind of encouragement or something. I hate it when gun rights people attack one another with all the vitriol and hate we would expect from Hilary and Obama. Thanks for letting me sound off.
the link is below IF you want to use it.
https://www.facebook.com/doubletapshootingrange/?fref=ts

streetsweeper

Rest assured some of us will use it. Heh.

Claw

What I’d like to know about is what’s up with the gun shop/range owner saying that gun buyers and their families need to undergo mental health checks before completing the sale.

Where did that come from?

Oh, yeah, the owner is a Euro-Weenie. That answers my question.

Mark RM1 USN ret

Hit the wrong button AGAIN!!? Very sorry.

CPT11A

The atomic AR bullshit was genuinely the dumbest thing I’ve read to date, on any topic.

aGrimm

CPT11A: It had me in stitches also. I started imagining 22 lbs of uranium on the end of my AR-15 barrel, and that’s not counting the weight of the casing, detonation and arming devices. Presuming a 5.56 as the propellant, it would travel about a 1/4 inch and go foom.

Being the radiation nerd that I am, I then went the other direction: presume we could come up with a way to make a nuke the size of a 5.56 bullet. The cartridge/gun propels the 5.56 nuke bullet to the target. Due to the fissionable material’s density, would likely go completely through the body, but we designed a teeny, weeny triggering device which initiates the fission immediately at first contact. As the fission progresses all the fissionable material is turned into atoms, ergo no shrapnel though maybe some from the thin outer casing and the trigger components. Because the casing and trigger components leave little room for fissionable material, the blast radius would be about 2″. Might knock someone on their butt, but that’s about it. But it would be cool to see a little tiny mushroom cloud coming off of me. Give me an M-79 – cheaper to build and a lot more damaging.

Hondo

Much bigger bang than that, aGrimm.

Let’s assume you could make a micro-nuke using pure U235 the same weight as a 5.56mm bullet (approx 4g), with 1 gram of it fissile material and 1% fission efficiency on detonation (e.g., 1 out of every 100 U235 atoms fissions). This means we’d have 0.01 gram of U235 fission.

This source estimates the energy liberated by the fission of 1kg of U235 at 8.06 x 10^13 joules – or 8.06 x 10^8 joules per 0.01 gram.

http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/nuctek/fissionenergy.html

This converter gives the resulting explosive equivalent:

http://www.unitconversion.org/energy/joules-to-kilotons-conversion.html

For 8.06 x 10^8 joules, the result converts to 0.0001926+ kilotons of explosive force – or the equivalent of nearly 200 kg of TNT.

Even 0.1% fission efficiency yields a bang of roughly 19.26kg TNT equivalent – or about the explosive fill of a 105mm HE round.

Under the proper conditions, “uranium make really big boom from very small package”. (smile)

Hondo

Correction – the explosive yield for 0.1% fission efficiency is nearly twice that of the explosive fill of the M795 155mm round. Memory glitch on my part.

Claw

Scooby says it’s way too early in the morning for math problems.

He says it’s bad enough to get drug out of bed at 0300 to go milk cows, but when he comes back to the house for SOS and coffee, if he has to break out the multiplication table flash cards before sitting down to get fed, he says “F That, I’m going back to bed.”

Oh, well, that much more SOS for me./smile

A Proud Infidel®™

NOW y’all dunnit! Next we’ll have to put up with pants-wetting snot heads like KUNTzman bawling for Uranium and Plutonium Control Laws with their “It’s for the chillllllldren!” mantra while they wet their pants and eat their boogers when they’re not licking windows.

Martinjmpr

You guys aren’t thinking big enough. Fission? No, that’s not the way.

Since Fusion, unlike fission, requires no critical mass, figure a way to light off a quantity of Lithium Deuteride and Tritium and make that 5.56 slug go thermo nuclear. 😉

Hondo

Well, problem is that you need a fission bang to create the conditions that ignite a fusion bang. So you’d first have to put the fission component in the 5.56mm round, then fit the thermonuclear part into whatever volume was left. Might be kinda tricky. (smile)

But you can use a bit of tritium to greatly increase fission efficiency in a fission bang – and thus greatly enhance said fission bang. A factor of 5 or 10 improvement over the above might well be do-able using tritium boosting.

‘Course, that assumes you could build a micro-nuke that small in the fist place. I’m guessing that would be even trickier than fitting a thermonuclear part in the leftover volume inside the round. (smile)

docstew

I guess we’ll have to be happy with the fission round for 5.56. We can start developing the fusion round for 7.62, for our nuclear AR-10. Did anyone tell ol’ Gersh that the AR can be found in a larger caliber? He might wet himself just at hearing about it.

Martinjmpr

You don’t need a nuke to light off an H-bomb, but you do need something that will produce the heat and X-ray pressure neccessary to cause the LiD to fuse.

And right now the only thing we know of that can do that is a nuke.

But apparently experiments are under way to try and figure out other ways of doing that (using lasers among other things.)

It would be interesting because as I said above, fusion weapons have no critical mass – there’s no upper limit (you can theoretically make an H bomb as big as you want) and there’s no lower limit (if you can figure out a way to fuse the hydrogen without a nuclear explosion, then there’s no limit to how SMALL you can make a fusion weapon either.)

Put another way, if we could figure out a way to start the fusion reaction without a preceding atomic explosion, then the thermonuclear hand grenade could become a real thing. 😉

Ex-PH2

Well, what about home fusion reactors, so that I can dump my electric bill?

Martinjmpr

We may not live to see it but I’m sure eventually they’ll figure out a way to make it happen.

There’s just too much $$ to be made and if there’s one thing I believe, it’s that if there’s money to be made, someone will figure out a way to make it.

Fusion has another benefit over fission, BTW: No radioactivity and therefore no radioactive waste. The product of fusion is helium (which I suppose could be used to float those fusion-reactor-powered gigantic dirigible airships that SciFi has been promising us for decades.)

Hondo

No, you don’t need a nuke to get fusion. You just need a confined plasma composed of the correct nuclei at temperatures in the 10-100M K range. A nuke is the only way we know today to produce that level of temperature anywhere outside a lab and over anything larger than a region smaller than a grain of salt. But “fusion doesn’t produce radioactivity”? That would be false. It does. Fusion does indeed produce dangerous radioactivity, in large quantities. It simply produces less of it than does fission. For fusion, three reactions are generally important: D-T, D-D, and D/T-Li. (D=deuterium, T=tritium, Li=lithium). There are a plethora of others, but these are the three that appear easiest to induce. D-T fusion (the easiest to pull off) produces a steady stream of 14.3MeV neutrons, as each fusing pair produces one. That’s precisely how the “neutron bomb” produced its massive neutron flux. These neutrons also tend to make whatever absorbs them temporarily radioactive, as the resulting nucleus after absorption is either in an excited state (and later loses the extra energy of excitement via gamma or beta emission) or is internally unstable and decays. The D-D reaction is fairly difficult to produce, and 50% of the time also produces an energetic (approx 2.45MeV) neutron. See above for the problems associated with such neutron emission. The D-Li and T-Li reactions are easier to produce than D-D, but each of them also produces energetic neutron emission in a substantial fraction of the time. A substantial part of the time it also produces tritium in place, leading to further D-T reactions and additional high-energy neutrons. All of the above also produce a large number of energetic ions, some of which (free electrons/positrons) are beta radiation. It doesn’t matter what type of fusion scheme is used (mag confinement, inertial confinement using lasers, intersecting beam, whatever). The fusion process itself in any reactor is based on the above reactions (usually the D-T, because it’s the easiest to initiate). There is absolutely no way to avoid producing neutron emissions from those reactions – and thus dealing with the resulting… Read more »

MSG Eric

Holy crap. What’s with all the math and shit?

I felt like I was taking a test to get into MIT reading that.

A Proud Infidel®™

*OOOOOWWW!*. You making my brain hurt!!!???

Claw

Now you know why Scooby said “F That” and went back to bed.

Ex-PH2

What? No mendelevium? No disprosium?

I’m SO disappointed!

aGrimm

Hondo: I stand corrected on the explosive force – shoulda done my homework. The atomic AR-15 reference was such a snort giggle that it just took me into the “what if” world of defeating physics and mechanics.

The reality: good luck with getting one gram of U235 to fission on its own. The smallest A-bomb we’ve made was the Davy Crockett of which its core weighed 50 lbs. I’m sure there are some bad-ass, secret squirrel mission commandoes who can handle 50 lbs on the end of their AR-15. but for the rest of us – nah. As I am preparing a party for the USA/Ecuador game tonight, I don’t feel like going all sciency right now, but thanks for the correction. That was fun.

Mark RM1 USN ret

Cunt man, you are a fucking cock sucking, cum swallowing, neo faciist, limp wrested, nose picking fuck tard.

streetsweeper

The gunshop could use some close “arty” support, people. lol

Poetrooper

Frank needs to get his lawyers working on a libel and defamation case against the New York Daily News. If publishing an article that deliberately positions a gun shop owner, who is not a celebrity or public person, as being anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment isn’t defamatory, I don’t know what the hell is. It’s guaranteed to cost him business so he has real damages.

Sue the sorry bastards, Frank. They’ll settle quickly with all the evidence that’s out there against them.

Bill M

Wimp admits he’s a wuss, film at 11.

Nice that he’s confirmed what apparently so many of his readers tagged him as — a pussy. And he doesn’t even understand that by his own admission, he had lost all credibility on the topic of guns. So not only is he a wimp, a wuss, and a pussy, but he’s also dumber than a box of rocks (and that’s an insult to the rocks therein).

ex-OS2

Cocksucker.

HoneyBadger

I was hammering some nails earlier, the recoil bruised my shoulder. Ever hit from the hammer was like an explosion, it goes without saying I have PTSD now.

HoneyBadger

I’ll never finish this spice rack at this rate

aGrimm

As Goofy would say, “UhhHuh, gersh, that was stupid.”

Gersh-That-Was-Stupid obviously hasn’t reached adulthood much less having become a “real” man. There are men and there are women (speaking of women: PH2, my bride won’t let me propose to you, damn it). There are girls and there are boys. Gersh-That-Was-Stupid identifies as a girl. Gender confusion screws up all thought processes. OTOH, I’ll bet the short curly hairs around his mouth are enticing to some.

Ex-PH2

aGrimm, your bride sounds like someone who has enormous good sense.

And this GERSH KUNTZMAN person is NOT a member of the female sex, but he IS an idiot.

26Limabeans

If KUNTZMAN ever took Viagra his nose would get an erection.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

I thought viagra only worked for men…

MustangCryppie

Hey, Kuntzman, you are very welcome to support or not support whatever you want. I spent 25 years in the USN making sure you had that right. What you don’t get to do is lie about something to advance your political agenda.

Shithead.

Marine0331

I find it hard to believe that Kuntzman would post something like this and then not expect to get blasted in regards to his masculinity. He probably was beaten up daily and had his lunch money taken away as a kid and just uses his pen now as his weapon. People like him post crap like what he wrote just to stir the pot. But, its idiots like Kuntzman who just can’t understand that its people who kill people and not any weapon known to man. Hell, a car in the wrong hands can be a weapon, but these goofs won’t argue that logic. Instead they attack the object not the ideology.

Lars Flaming Mangina

Kunty and I like to snuggle up on the couch in our onesies and and have hot cocoa while watching Brokeback Mountain… we’re such “sensitive” guys

Lars Taylor's Narcissism

That’s right my sandy alter personality! People should be at awe at the superior progressive logic that we grace them with. Since I got my education at Berkeley, they should automatically know that I am right where they are wrong.

Ex-PH2

The most important thing in this is to continue with making it plain that GERSH KUNTZMAN LIED about GUNNZZ and about his brief, timid experience with one that a 10-year-old girl can handle without crying.

I’ll bet he’s rude to waitresses, too.

A Proud Infidel®™

Snotnosed pus-nutted candyassed Sparkle Ponies like him rarely tip worth a damn either. I bet KUNTzman is a Brony as well.

Bobo

After the fist piece he was just a blubbering mangina. Now he’s worse than my grade school child. At last night’s swim meet Jr came off the block late and lost because of it. Criticism taken, “roger that” given, and moved on. Not a feeble diatribe to defend the indefensible.

26Limabeans

KUNTZMAN is angling for a pull-it-sir.

Doc Savage

Someone needs a tissue and a hug.

My 90 lb daughter seems to handle the AR 15 just fine with no ill effects; I will of course grant you that she is a bit of a tomboy, and she is a hulking 5 feet tall.

Naturally that makes her a potential mass shooter ( when she isn’t indulging in her love for tinkering in my garage, spoiling her cats, and going online to voice her absolute hatred for pastel colored cars)….I would go so far as to say that she is a hunter….for sales on “cute shoes” ( her words ).

After reading the above and yesterdays article to her, she paused a moment, blinked a few times, and after several moments of deep philosophical pondering and reflection she offered up this well thought out and enlightened bit of wisdom to me….

“what a twat”

Once I cleaned enough of my manly Chai latte from the keyboard, I considered the fact that she had never read Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”, but if she had, I would consider her statement to be the shortest and most succinct version of Cliff notes on that particular book to have ever been uttered.

From the mouth of babes.

Claw

And the rest of the mall shopping universe has moved on because Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have announced they are expecting their second child and Taylor Swift was caught smooching some new guy on the beach.

Just thought I’d catch everybody up on the news from the real world./smile

nbcguy54ACTUAL

I can only imagine what a shivering pile of flesh Mr. Gherkin turns into when a John Wayne movie comes on the TV. ..

Hondo

Who knows? Maybe seeing “Duke” on the tube . . . excites him.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

I reckon shivering takes on many forms…

Hondo

I think perhaps you’re confusing shivering due to being scared witless with quivering due to anticipation/excitement. (smile)

Silentium Est Aureum

He claims his First Amendment rights are being quashed?

Hardly. First, Sally, it says, “CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW,” meaning government restriction on free speech, which, btw, is not an absolute. Second, you do have the right to say what you did without GOVERNMENT interference (and this administration likely fapped themselves silly over this story) but ordinary citizens like you and I have the right–nay, the obligation–to call you out on your bullshit.

And my original assessment still stands: Dude, even your balls are made of pussy.

Ex-PH2

My neurtered male 15-pound cat wants to have a word with you, SAE.

Silentium Est Aureum

No offense to cats.

I love cats.

I just can’t eat a whole one.

IDC SARC

one word…kittens

SFC D

kitten McNuggets?

B Woodman

“quibbled”? Quibbled!? QUIBBLED?!

NO! WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS NOT A QUIBBLE, BUT A FLAT OUT, BALLS-TO-THE-WALLS DISAGREEMENT. I DISAGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU WROTE IN YOUR SO-CALLED “SHOOTING A GUN” PROPAGANDA HIT PIECE, AND AM CALLING YOU OUT AS A LIAR, A CHEAT, AND A WASTE OF OXYGEN AND VALUABLE RESOURCES. YOU MAKE ME WANT TO CHEW NAILS AND SPIT TACKS. INTO YOUR EYES. GRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. . . . .

Ex-PH2

Senator Somethingorother ran his mouth in a 15-hour filibuster on MORE GUNNZZZ CONTROL stuff. Here’s a link.

http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-news-now/2016/06/16/thursday-morning-briefing-filibustering-for-gun-control/

He only lasted 15 hours? What a wimp.

Strom Thurmond lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes filibustering on the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Robert La Follette lasted 18 hours and 23 minutes in 1908 to halt debate on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill.

Atkron

I need to go to the proctologist and get the ‘roid growing on my GERSH KUNTZMAN looked at.