There are two VC-25s. Support aircraft include KC-135, C-32A and C-40B, while heavy gear like the "war wagons" the Secret Service use and the Presidential limos are carried on C-17s.
Actually, the states started to ban alcohol before the Federal government got involved. And for an amendment to be ratified, you don't need all the states, for this - On January 16, 1919, the Amendment was ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight states.
Or go to the right major cities, like Portland/Seattle/Sacramento or most of the cities in the Great Plains and you'll see how damned damaging Meth is.
I'm liberal on drugs. Weed, smack, coke, etc should be decriminalized, but Meth...take the meth producers out and shoot them in the street like a rabid dog.
If a 100 million dollar US test of countermeasures fails, how robust are Russian or Chinese countermeasures going to be on rockets with very little maintenance?
"The Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) system allows more than one kill vehicle to be launched from a single booster. The system consists of a carrier vehicle with on board sensors and a number of small, simple kill vehicles that can be independently targeted against objects in a threat cluster. The integrated payload is designed to fit on existing and planned interceptor boosters."
"The MKV system includes a carrier vehicle with on-board sensors and kill vehicles weighing approximately 10 pounds."
This system is going to be the stationary fixed base one. In Alaska, California, and maybe the EU.
Then there is the Navy one, thats on US and Japanese destroyers, which also has an anti-satellite capability.
Then there is the ABL which is the mobile Air Force part, and there are smaller tactical lasers for dealing with tactical (non-nuclear) rockets for places like Israel and forward deployed units in theatre.
US is 305 million, Mexico is 106 million, Columbia is 44 million, these three countries have alot of violent crime, much of it is drug driven, more in Columbia and Mexico than the US. So 455 million people in those three nations, or about 1/14th of the global population.
The countries you listed, add up to 326.4 million people, or a hair more people that the US has. Area wise, it's pretty good, because of Canada, but over all its much less area than Africa or the Russian Federation, so no it doesn't cover a large part of the world.
Cherry picking countries is easy, but I ignored Sub-saharan Africa and South East Asia and concentrated on the Americas.
Highest Firearm homicide rate per 100,000 pop. South Africa Colombia Thailand Guatemala Paraguay Zimbabwe Mexico
I have statistics for the United States and the numbers are similar throughout Central and South America, if not higher than the US for countries like Columbia and Mexico. Where are the statistics for "most of the world"? Real statistics, not watered down politically correct statistics like the police in the UK have been handing out in the last few years.
And yes, I'm in the United States, safe to assume that since my handle is that of a famous Law Enforcement officer and my sig is from a famous American General;)
Actually, being armed is a huge deterrent to crime. As soon as the old person squeezes off a round from that thing, if it hits or not, chances are the attacker is going back out the way they came in.
See...one never waves a gun at an attacker in hopes they'll leave you alone. If you are in a situation that is life or death and you draw a weapon to defend yourself, you draw it with the intent to destroy the threat.
And if they miss and the attacker keeps coming, at least the neighbors will report the gunshot and police will be alerted, and if the attacker still continues and ends up killing the person that had the palm gun, at least they tried to defend themselves, which is alot better than dying without a struggle.
No, its an indictment of the people who will break into a home and rob other violently.
30 percent (29.9) of all violent crimes in 2003 were robberies.
Offenders used firearms in 41.8 percent of robberies, strong-arm tactics (hands, fists, feet, etc.) in 39.9 percent of robberies, and knives or cutting instruments in 8.9 percent of robberies. Other weapons were used in 9.4 percent of robberies.
So 60 percent of armed robberies in 2003 used a deadly weapon.
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with intent or malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries. Murder is generally distinguished from other forms of homicide by the elements of malice, aforethought, and the lack of lawful justification.
Self defense is a justifiable homicide.
A homicide may be considered justified if it is done to prevent a very serious crime, such as rape, armed robbery, or murder. The assailant's intent to commit a serious crime must be clear at the time.
A justifiable homicide not being murder goes back to the Laws of Solon. The original wording of the Commandment is "You shall not murder".
Right to bear arms, as pointed out by the United States Supreme Court, the final word on what is and isn't archaic and legal in the United States, is a fundamental right of American Citizens. Period. And yes, like Freedom of Speech and Press and other fundamental rights, it has been eroded over the years, but it remains a right.
Like Toonol's post points out in this thread, the United States is different than most of the other Nations out there in that the vast majority of laws and elections are unique to the 50 member states and 310 Indian Reservations, the only United States spanning vote is for President and even that is handled at a local level with the residents of the States voting to decide who their State is voting for.
States have given up some rights to the Federal Government for purposes of unity, but States still have many powers that the Federal Government does not have. Like in my state of residence, Oregon. The Federal Government does not allow for doctor assisted suicide and has tried to regulate the medication used for it, well the people of Oregon voted and its legal here and in Washington State, but not in any of the other 48 states and is illegal in the eyes of the Justice Department of the Federal Government.
If I'm the victim of a violent crime, say a beating with a improvised weapon or a knife, something thats very common and legal, and I fight back with a firearm, wounding or killing the attacker that make me a violent offender at the same moral level as the person that attacked me...or worse if I kill them?
Huh.
I would argue that there are in fact such a thing as a "good gundeath" based on the saving of other people's lives who were threatened by an attacker.
Your scenarios are off base. Many home invasion robberies are drug fueled and lead to the physical assaults of the people at home, armed or unarmed.
A more realistic scenario... 1a) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has no weapon therefore not a threat, going to be assaulted and/or killed because they are a witness.
You know that the gun control numbers include self-defense shootings in the "gun deaths" numbers right? So, if I have to defend my life, or someone else's life, it gets chalked up as a "gun death" along with murder.
Tesla is doing it the opposite way that the automakers started, thats a reason why they'll never scale and do what they need to do to become a long term success.
Ford didn't start out with expensive fancy cars that no one could afford, they changed the industry with a cheap car, built the base and then started making luxury models.
Tesla will be a niche, like Porsche, Lambo, Ferrari, Aston Martin are.
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They are announcing the RFP now, for a 2017 replacement. At which time the VC-25s will be 27 years old.
And its over weight, over budget and delayed. Its going to end up costing around a billion dollars a bird and the project is in trouble.
Really? the 747 is pretty iconic as far as airliners go.
There are two VC-25s. Support aircraft include KC-135, C-32A and C-40B, while heavy gear like the "war wagons" the Secret Service use and the Presidential limos are carried on C-17s.
Since when did the POTUS have the means and authority to single-handedly end human life on Earth?
All the nukes the US/Russians have can't do that, so...how can the POTUS do this?
Theres the VC-37 that JFK used to 1962 at the Museum of Flight south of Seattle.
http://www.museumofflight.org/air-force-one
Very cramped inside.
Offutt has E-4s, a 747 command post, which are not VC-25s
The EC-130 Commando Solo operated by Pennsylvania Air Guard has the ability to override radio and TV signals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_EC-130
Federal Law prohibits it, Astronauts are Federal Employees, except Ramon, so they'd be protected like everyone else is.
Alcohol ban.
Actually, the states started to ban alcohol before the Federal government got involved. And for an amendment to be ratified, you don't need all the states, for this - On January 16, 1919, the Amendment was ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight states.
Or go to the right major cities, like Portland/Seattle/Sacramento or most of the cities in the Great Plains and you'll see how damned damaging Meth is.
I'm liberal on drugs. Weed, smack, coke, etc should be decriminalized, but Meth...take the meth producers out and shoot them in the street like a rabid dog.
If a 100 million dollar US test of countermeasures fails, how robust are Russian or Chinese countermeasures going to be on rockets with very little maintenance?
Umm...its a vehicle for use in space, not on in a theatre or tactical sense.
http://www.mda.mil/mdaLink/html/asptmkv.html
"The Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) system allows more than one kill vehicle to be launched from a single booster. The system consists of a carrier vehicle with on board sensors and a number of small, simple kill vehicles that can be independently targeted against objects in a threat cluster. The integrated payload is designed to fit on existing and planned interceptor boosters."
"The MKV system includes a carrier vehicle with on-board sensors and kill vehicles weighing approximately 10 pounds."
This system is going to be the stationary fixed base one. In Alaska, California, and maybe the EU.
Then there is the Navy one, thats on US and Japanese destroyers, which also has an anti-satellite capability.
Then there is the ABL which is the mobile Air Force part, and there are smaller tactical lasers for dealing with tactical (non-nuclear) rockets for places like Israel and forward deployed units in theatre.
That covers a large part of the world? OK...
US is 305 million, Mexico is 106 million, Columbia is 44 million, these three countries have alot of violent crime, much of it is drug driven, more in Columbia and Mexico than the US. So 455 million people in those three nations, or about 1/14th of the global population.
The countries you listed, add up to 326.4 million people, or a hair more people that the US has. Area wise, it's pretty good, because of Canada, but over all its much less area than Africa or the Russian Federation, so no it doesn't cover a large part of the world.
Cherry picking countries is easy, but I ignored Sub-saharan Africa and South East Asia and concentrated on the Americas.
Highest Firearm homicide rate per 100,000 pop.
South Africa
Colombia
Thailand
Guatemala
Paraguay
Zimbabwe
Mexico
I have statistics for the United States and the numbers are similar throughout Central and South America, if not higher than the US for countries like Columbia and Mexico. Where are the statistics for "most of the world"? Real statistics, not watered down politically correct statistics like the police in the UK have been handing out in the last few years.
And yes, I'm in the United States, safe to assume that since my handle is that of a famous Law Enforcement officer and my sig is from a famous American General ;)
Actually, being armed is a huge deterrent to crime. As soon as the old person squeezes off a round from that thing, if it hits or not, chances are the attacker is going back out the way they came in.
See...one never waves a gun at an attacker in hopes they'll leave you alone. If you are in a situation that is life or death and you draw a weapon to defend yourself, you draw it with the intent to destroy the threat.
And if they miss and the attacker keeps coming, at least the neighbors will report the gunshot and police will be alerted, and if the attacker still continues and ends up killing the person that had the palm gun, at least they tried to defend themselves, which is alot better than dying without a struggle.
No, its an indictment of the people who will break into a home and rob other violently.
30 percent (29.9) of all violent crimes in 2003 were robberies.
Offenders used firearms in 41.8 percent of robberies, strong-arm tactics (hands, fists, feet, etc.) in 39.9 percent of robberies, and knives or cutting instruments in 8.9 percent of robberies. Other weapons were used in 9.4 percent of robberies.
So 60 percent of armed robberies in 2003 used a deadly weapon.
No, its not murder.
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with intent or malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries. Murder is generally distinguished from other forms of homicide by the elements of malice, aforethought, and the lack of lawful justification.
Self defense is a justifiable homicide.
A homicide may be considered justified if it is done to prevent a very serious crime, such as rape, armed robbery, or murder. The assailant's intent to commit a serious crime must be clear at the time.
A justifiable homicide not being murder goes back to the Laws of Solon. The original wording of the Commandment is "You shall not murder".
Right to bear arms, as pointed out by the United States Supreme Court, the final word on what is and isn't archaic and legal in the United States, is a fundamental right of American Citizens. Period. And yes, like Freedom of Speech and Press and other fundamental rights, it has been eroded over the years, but it remains a right.
Like Toonol's post points out in this thread, the United States is different than most of the other Nations out there in that the vast majority of laws and elections are unique to the 50 member states and 310 Indian Reservations, the only United States spanning vote is for President and even that is handled at a local level with the residents of the States voting to decide who their State is voting for.
States have given up some rights to the Federal Government for purposes of unity, but States still have many powers that the Federal Government does not have. Like in my state of residence, Oregon. The Federal Government does not allow for doctor assisted suicide and has tried to regulate the medication used for it, well the people of Oregon voted and its legal here and in Washington State, but not in any of the other 48 states and is illegal in the eyes of the Justice Department of the Federal Government.
OK...let me try to understand your reasoning.
If I'm the victim of a violent crime, say a beating with a improvised weapon or a knife, something thats very common and legal, and I fight back with a firearm, wounding or killing the attacker that make me a violent offender at the same moral level as the person that attacked me...or worse if I kill them?
Huh.
I would argue that there are in fact such a thing as a "good gundeath" based on the saving of other people's lives who were threatened by an attacker.
Your scenarios are off base. Many home invasion robberies are drug fueled and lead to the physical assaults of the people at home, armed or unarmed.
A more realistic scenario...
1a) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has no weapon therefore not a threat, going to be assaulted and/or killed because they are a witness.
You know that the gun control numbers include self-defense shootings in the "gun deaths" numbers right? So, if I have to defend my life, or someone else's life, it gets chalked up as a "gun death" along with murder.
Archaic? Umm, read the decision from the USSC from the last term, they did a very good job explaining exactly how it is not out of date.
Tesla is doing it the opposite way that the automakers started, thats a reason why they'll never scale and do what they need to do to become a long term success.
Ford didn't start out with expensive fancy cars that no one could afford, they changed the industry with a cheap car, built the base and then started making luxury models.
Tesla will be a niche, like Porsche, Lambo, Ferrari, Aston Martin are.