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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan TheBookMan<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 08, 2016 8:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Happy Russian Roulette Day<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Nov 8, 2016, at 8:01 AM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p>On Nov 8, 2016 6:23 AM, "John Clark" <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>… Two bullets are loaded into the six shooter. The cylinder is spun at random. The revolver is pointed at your head. The trigger is pulled. The hammer falls and ....<o:p></o:p></p><p>>...the barrel is jammed?<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Where is this barrel jammed? Why was somebody so mean as to jam it there?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>>…</span>Hammer?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br>There are many schools of thought on this. We hear of the firearm definition of the term as a component in the firing mechanism, but it should be noted that when the hammer “falls” it really is moving mostly sideways, and if anything is moving upward. Furthermore, one of the important lessons if one takes firearm training is that one does not “pull” the trigger, but rather squeezes it. Otherwise it introduces an upward motion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>This can be demonstrated by helping a person firing a pistol for the first time. Make a video for instruction purposes. This works best if it is a six-round pistol. Put only five rounds in it but do not tell the novice shooter. Have her fire at a target. Count the rounds as they are fired and tell her to not stop firing until all rounds are fired. Note what happens on the sixth chamber, which is empty. In most cases, the novice shooter brings the gun upward as if it had fired and there was a kick. Check it out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>>…Happy Russian Roulette day…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>There we go, blaming the Russians, just because they invented the game. But how do we know they invented that game? Good chance someone thought of using the American Samuel Colt’s invention right here in the states long before the commies ever showed up. They might have done it, but we don’t really know, do we? All along it might have been American Roulette, an inside job, or perhaps it was Ukranians that did that game to start with, and the Russians are being blamed unfairly. I demand proof.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>