As tax day approaches

For your perusal, the original tax rates from 1913 and as compared to 2005 dollars
And these are tax rates that people today would fight and die for.

Figure 1:1913 Personal Income Tax System

Figure 2:1913 Personal Income Tax System in 2005 Dollars

Figure 1:
Tax Rate- Income Level
1%- up to $20,000
2%- $20,000 - $50,000
3%- $50,000 - $75,000
4%- $75,000 - $100,000
5%- $100,000 - $250,000
6%- $250,000 - $500,000
7%- over $500,000

Figure 2:
1913 Tax Rates Adjusted for 2005 Dollars

Tax Rate - Income Level
1%- up to $382,189
2%- $382,198 - $955,495
3%- $955,495 - $1,433,242
4%- $1,433,242 - $1,910,990
5%- $1,910,990 - $4,299,727
6%- $4,299,727 - $9,554,950
7%- over $9,554,950

(Figure 1:A $3,000 exemption for single filers
and $4,000 for a married couple.)
(Figure 2:A $44,776 exemption for single filers
and $59,701 for a married couple.)

The original marketing campaign for the 16th Amendment was that only the rich would pay taxes. Under the old rates, this would mean that today the first $382,000 would be free from taxes. But note that even in 1913 class envy and warfare was rampant. The rich still paid taxes. And only the rich. The more you made, the more you paid as a percentage and certainly as an amount. This is in direct opposition to what the founders wanted, and with good reason. The founders wrote that taxes were to be apportioned. An example of apportioned taxes: the entire budget of the United States is about $3,000,000,000,000. The population of Minnesota is 1.7% of the total U.S. population. That would mean that Minnesota is responsible for paying 1.7% of the budget or $51,000,000,000 (which means on average every Minnesotan [not every taxpayer] would owe about $10,000). Now, how Minnesota decides to collect that amount would be up to the state legislature. But, that would also mean that people could move to a state that collect that bill in way that they thought was fair. Welcome to federalism.
We're not quite where the Founding Fathers wanted us to be.
My idea: eliminate tax withholding. Move Tax Day from April 15th to the first Monday in November. Hey, wait a minute. That would mean that within twenty-four hours of having to write a large check people would vote in the General Election.
Hhhhmmm...do you think writing that check might impact the vote?
Happy Tax Day.

This just in!

For years I've tried to understand how left wingers came up with policies that have always failed. There was no reason, logic, sound economic or any Constitutional underpinnings that I could ever find in their judgments and resolutions. I have now discovered how all decisions are made by the left:

I should have known.

How civil are we here at Savage Republican

Reading Mitch Berg over at Shot in the Dark, he had a Cuss-O-Meter. The Cuss-O-Meter scans your blog and reports on, well, how "civil" your website is.
I took the plunge.
Here is the result for SavageRepublican.com:

Created by OnePlusYou

"Around 0.1% of the pages on your website contain cussing.This is 99% LESS than other websites who took this test."
Civility as we "Crush Liberals Left and Right".

Mr. Heston

We all read about the passing Charlton Heston this weekend. In October 2002 I had the opportunity to meet and talk to Mr. Heston. MN Conceal Carry Reform Now (MNCCRN/GOCRA) , the organization that got the MN Personal Protection Act passed (erroneously referred to as the conceal /carry act) put together a rally with the NRA for Duluth. We had the top of the Republican ticket there. We thought we'd have maybe 500 attendees there. We had at least 1,500. Wayne LaPierre was there and gave a stock speech that lasted twenty minutes, fifteen minutes too long. He completely forgot who his audience was: Duluth. Union guys. Reagan Democrats. Bowling and beer. LaPierre went on for twenty minutes about Chuck Schumer (silence), Charlie Wrangle (crickets), Barbara Boxer (snore), Hillary Clinton (roar and boos). Fifteen minutes too long. They had come to hear Charlton Heston defend their Second Amendment rights. Not to listen to Wayne LaPierre go on for twenty minutes about politicians they never heard of.
Mr. Heston took the stage to thunderous applause. It was apparent that he was in failing health. The body was frail. But his spirit was incredibly strong. He was committed.Just after his talk, I met and talked with him. Mr. Heston was the very definition of "gentleman": gracious, attentive, soft spoken.
I remember his comments about the upcoming election. He used a story from Ben Hur. He said that he really wanted to do a great chariot race. He knew that it would be the action highlight of the film. So, he was out working with the four horse team, eight hours a day. And a few, well, mishaps occured. Finally , the director took him to one side and said "Uh, Chuck. We appreciate your desire for authenticity in the chariot race. But, look- you're going to win the race. You really are. All you have to do is: stay in the chariot!" In the 2002 election, he told us that we were going to win. All we needed to do was stay in the chariot.
Seems that way too many Republicans have fallen out of the chariot.
Charlton Heston:Another giant from my youth who will be missed.

Make a difference!

Twila Brase at the Citizens Council on Health Care is doing yeoman's work in dealing with significant health care issues at the MN legislature. Right now, there is an issue that directly asks the question "Who owns you?" The state of MN has kept a blood and DNA sample on every child that has been born in Minnesota since July 1997. No law exists that gives the Minnesota Department of Health the authority to have done that. They just decided to do it! Why? Because they could. Or they thought they could. Or, probably more closer to the truth-"Why not? We're the state!" Not only that, but since 1986, the MDH has been providing DNA to genetic research with out the consent of the owners. In other words, the state of Minnesota believes it owns you and therefore doesn't need your permission to do research on your genetic material. Any questions slaves? The DFL seems to think not. And best you not ask any questions of your true owners.
The legislature is now deciding on an opt in clause that would give parents the power over who has their children's genetic material. Another vote would destroy all samples that were collected illegally without consent.
Go here and fill out the online petition that lets the governor know that privacy is important to you. That the state doesn't own you. That you own you.

Not a penny

As I'm wrapping up a business deal this morning, I opened Prairie Pravda to see this headline:"Senate committee authorizes Vikings stadium study". Seems the lefty controlled Senate has given 2,000,000 of your dollars to fund a study as to how much more of your money ($100,000,000's ) is going to be given to make another billionaire richer. Seems they don't have access to the polls that showed a vast majority of taxpayers did NOT want to fund the Twins stadium and make multi-billionaire Carl Pohlad richer. Anybody want to bet that those same people, and now even more people feel the same way about a Vikings stadium? Yah, the Democrats are for the common man. Right.
Hey, here's a real American capitalist idea: let the Vikings spend more of their money to study how they're going to raise their own money to make themselves richer.

A mea culpa

Seems that all the kerfuffle about Hillary's trip to Tuzla is definitely wrong. And I was wrong along with them.
A good friend of mine sent me a link to actual footage of Hillary's trip to Bosnia that shows that she did indeed land under sniper fire...and shows a side of Hillary I never would have imagined let alone believed without seeing this newly discovered and very impressive video:


And what does all this prove? Well, I'll let Hillary speak for me:"It proves I'm human."

Late night news

Frequently at night I put on the radio either the Glenn Beck Show on KTLK 100.3 or Rusty Humphries on AM1280 The Patriot. AM1280 at night is a sketchy listen sometimes down here in Savage. Last night, it was worth the static and background bounce.
I met Rusty at the Minnetonka Marriott for one of the Republican Presidential Debates when the Repubs still had 47 candidates in the running. Well spoken and a real conservative,Rusty is not a "I'm a conservative too. Watch me change" that I run into far too often in Republican circles. Anyhow, last night, he had on Colonel William "Goose" Changose (Air Force,ret.). Seems that Colonel Changose is one of the military "go to" guys that Rusty uses when he needs to flesh out a story or rumor concerning the military. The reason he called the Colonel was to find out what he knew about the about the, well, discrepancies between Hillary's recounting of her landing in Tuzla versus what the video keeps showing. Rusty recounted that the Colonel's reply was "Who told you to call me?" Rusty was a bit taken aback as the Colonel again is a go to. So Rusty asked "Well, why do you ask?" The Colonel's response "Because I was the pilot for Hillary on that C-17 that flew into Tuzla." Oh.
So, Rusty took the Colonel through Hillary's rendition of the Tuzla event.
The background: The reason a C-17 was used is because the other planes in the inventory that transport high level Administration officials (such as Air Force One, the usual 747, and others) are not capable of landing on the short runway at Tuzla. The C-17 has defensive capabilities that the other planes do not. The Secret Service was in charge of all aspects of the flight.
So, off we go.
The Colonel had flown into Tuzla at least twice before: Once with President Clinton and once with Secretary of Defense Perry (I believe is who he said. Reception, as I said was sketchy at times).
Yes, there was armor on the plane. Reason: the Secret Service.
Hillary was instructed to go to the cockpit as it heavily armored. Colonel Changose : The cockpit is armored as that's where the aircrew is. The cargo area isn't armored as, well, it's cargo. Hillary was in the cockpit to talk. Not for protection. Colonel Changose found her to pleasant and conversant. Colonel Changose also found President Clinton very personable.
Hillary said that the passengers were ordered to sit on their flak jackets. Colonel Changose replied that they were not. Colonel Changose was clear that he had never seen anyone sit on their flak jackets. He went on to say that whenever flak jackets are present, people are told to put them on, not sit on them. A comment was proffered that only in Apocalypse Now did people sat on flak jackets.
Hillary said there were evasive measures taken (corkscrewed in to Tuzla is the usual phrase). Colonel Changose replied that as there are very high hills around the Tuzla airbase, he had to come in high and drop. But that was not evasive maneuvering, it was standard landing procedure.
Hillary said that she and the passengers were told to duck and run to the cars as there was active sniper fire. Colonel Changose said there was nothing of the kind. He also had a pointed comment that reflected a thought I first had when I heard this story: if there were any sniper fire, the Secret Service would have redirected the flight away from Tuzla, immediately! No questions. Colonel Changose offered that no pilot wants to be flying the plane on which the First Lady is killed or wounded. No Secret Service agent would ever allow a landing into a hot zone. Even if Hillary screamed "We've got to get Sheryl Crowe and Sinbad to that USO performance-NOW!" the Secret Service would never have allowed it.
Hillary, wanting to showcase her deep international and diplomatic experience, commented that she was the first high level American official to visit the area after the Dayton Peace Accords. Colonel Changose said that that was correct. That after President Clinton and SecDef Perry, Hillary was the first high level official to visit Bosnia after the Dayton Peace Accords.
Rusty laughed as I smiled at Colonel Changose's dry sense of humor.
To be clear, Colonel Changose was direct. He didn't editorialize. He was an officer and gentleman in how he answered Rusty's questions. He didn't take any swipes at Hillary, though she was not his first choice for President.

CBS

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) used to be called the "Clinton Broadcast System".
Well, today, or at least for now, it became the"Clinton Bludgeoning System".
Go to this link that Ed Morrisey has at Hot Air and watch all three clips.
As I watch The Hillary, I remember a quote from a Vietnam vet friend of mine:"Twist and turn, crash and burn."

Tears for Sara Jane-no Part II

And now, for your review, regurgitation and revulsion, the further pleadings , sorry, pitiful whining from the repulsive radical left wing apologists for the mother killing Kathleen Soliah:
"Olson was literally snatched by the board in the dark of night and imprisoned without notice, without a hearing and without an explanation. "
My reply:"Myrna Opsahl's innocent life was literally snatched from her and she was imprisoned in a grave, without a hearing and without an explanation."
"The board's action took a huge emotional toll on Olson and her family. "
My reply:"Cold blooded Kathleen Soliah and her fellow murders action took a huge toll on Mrs. Opsahl and took and continues to take a huge emotional toll on Mrs. Opsahl's family."
"Once an inmate is released on parole, the board can only suspend or revoke her parole"
My reply:"Once these lawless, self-congratulating, unremorseful pukes took Mrs. Opsahl's life and imposed their evil will on Mrs. Opsahl' and her family, they can't revoke or suspend the death sentence they forcibly imposed on her and her family."
Let's be real clear here kids, Kathleen Soliah could and should have been indicted for first degree murder. A fourteen year sentence with seven years served is a gift. A gift. They gave Myrna Opsahl an eternal death sentence. No parole, no time off for good behavior.
So, SHUT UP!!!
Wow, sounds like I'm angry. And repulsed.
I am.

Do the right thing

In response to the cowardly stance the Forest Lake H.S. took in canceling the Vets for Freedom Tour , the 4,000th American military death and the disgraceful Huffo post, I present this from a link at Hugh Hewitt , I present this from Freedom Never Cries :

Things to Remember during the next School Referendum and School Board election

Your Tax dollars at work --

This is who the School officials think is appropriate to inform the students about war and peace.

(This is a picture of the protester the Prior Lake School District uses for guidance for their assembly)











(Weekly War Protest.
Notice the UN flag raised, US flag lowered.
He mission is to make the UN a world Parliament)



According to school officials, This is who is a bad influence on our children (Forest Lake)

Tears for Sara Jane-no

Former parolee and convicted murderer Sara Jane Olson (scratch that. SJO is an alias. Her legal name is Mrs. Kathleen Soiah) got yanked back to prison.
And the wails of anger from her friends:
Apologist Wendy Know said about convicted murderer Olson's (sorry Soliah) return to prison-"To put her and her family through that is one more unconscionable act. I just think this kind of treatment is cruel. It's unconscionable to put her through one more thing like this. It's unbelievable!"
Dear Wendy, you insensitive, ignorant, left wing s**t.
Look at this picture:


























This a picture of Myrna Opsahl. She was the woman murdered when Cookbook Queen Sara Jane (then known as Katherine Soliah) robbed the Crocker Bank that day in 1975.
She was making a deposit from her church. She was cut down by a shotgun blast because she didn't move fast enough. She was a mother of four. Her husband was a doctor at the hospital she was rushed to.
One of Soliah/Olson's fellow murderers, Emily Harris, said about the killing of Mrs. Opsahl:"Oh, she's dead, but it really doesn't matter. She was a bourgeois pig anyway. Her husband is a doctor. He was at the hospital where they brought her ".
One of the four pukes who robbed that bank that day kicked a pregnant teller in the stomach that caused her to go into premature labor.

And to add grossness to this radical left-wing insensitive vomit fest, Murderer Soliah's lawyer screamed this vileness:"This is like the Gestapo picking up somebody off the street," Nickerson said."
Yah. The Gestapo. (I mentioned this to friend in Florida-his comment was if this were like the Gestapo, Aspiring Lead Actress in the Vagina Monologues Soliah would never be seen again.)
Outrage that Murderer Soliah has to go back to prison.
Spare me now please!!!

"Trust me, I never____ with_____ and I would not____"

With all the flap over Pastor/Reverend/Mentor/Uncle Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama denying that he ever heard any such sermon, Senator Obama is asking me to "suspend my disbelief" (Sorry Hillary. It was just to great a quote not to use).
I've been a member of a large suburban church for nineteen years. We've had three pastors in that time. One is my spiritual mentor. For me, within a year, I knew how each one of them viewed the world.
Senator Obama wants be to believe that he never heard any of Pastor/Reverend/Mentor/Uncle Jeremiah Wright's inflammatory, hate filled sermons. He wants me to believe that after he never heard any of these sermons, that he never heard another parishoner/church member mention to Barack "Wow! Did you hear, what did you think of Pastor Wright's sermon on _________?" And Sen. Obama expects me to believe that never happened. He wants me to believe that he never knew his mentor harbored and expanded and elaborated on these "black liberation theology" concepts? And did so in a very public way? In the church Senator Obama was a member of for twenty years?
Well, it appears that Senator Obama now needs to "man-up" with the consequences of his choice.

This just in :Bush reports "Economy in trouble"

Bush reports "Economy in trouble". Ya think?
Last night on the Glenn Beck show (how does he stay on CNN?) Glenn mentioned the oil price increases. He had on a trucker who shipped eggs from Ohio to Pennsylvania. He owns nine trucks. His daily fuel costs have gone from $3,000/day to around $7,000/day. He is a small businessman (as am I). His customer has worked with him on added fuel costs (he charges a fuel surcharge). But, his customer is also feeling a fuel pinch of a separate kind:ethanol. The wholly stupid and outrageous fraud of "ethanol" has put the cost of animal feed to the point where the cost for a dozen eggs has risen 40% in a few months. Milk prices are up. Chicken is up. Food prices are up all across the board, except for beef. Why beef? Because cattle ranchers can not feed their herds so they are selling them right now, flooding the market. In other words, they're dumping their herds before they broke trying to feed the herd. And when those herds are sold and no new herds being raised to bring to market the price of beef will skyrocket. Add in transportation costs and I have a question for GWB: When the hell are you blithering idiots in D.C going to get the hell OUT-OF-THE-WAY? Why on earth are you putzes in D.C. forcing us to put our food into our cars? And why aren't we drilling in ANWR, the coastal shelf and the Gulf of Mexico?
And the credit crisis? Made up completely from D.C. and the Fed Res playing with the market. And market forces will will out. They always do. Always.
GWB said at the Renewable Fuels Conference " If you're a hog-raiser in the United States, you're beginning to worry about the cost of corn to feed your animals. I'm beginning to hear complaints from our cattlemen about the high price of corn. The high price of corn is beginning to affect the price of food. " Crimeny George, you're JUST discovering this ? And you're only hearing from cattle ranchers. Ya got a filter on your email client that stops any and all emails from all but cattle ranchers? But, not to be deterred from a failed policy, he soldiers on like Napoleon going to Moscow. In his very next statement he proclaims " And so we got to do something about it, and the best thing to do is not to retreat from our commitment to alternative fuels, but to spend research and development money on alternatives to ethanol made from other materials -- for example, cellulosic ethanol holds a lot of promise. I'm sure there are people in the industry here that will tell you how far the industry has come in a very quick period of time." ARRRRrrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!! The only reason that "the industry" has come so far in a very quick period of time is because of government subsidies and mandates. You people have forced this crap on us. How many days before this type of insanity ends? Bad news on the ethanol front: not for at least for another 58 months. Hillary, Obama and McCain are all ethanol/biofuels/climate change acolytes. And there are way too many of their disciples in Congress. And Archer Daniels Midland puts too much money into Washington. As do so many other lobbyists (including AARP, NEA. etc.).
So, a few simple solutions for these problems here (that will some time to work their way through the market):
Four real simple solutions (this only a start):

1. Stop and end all ethanol subsidies and mandates and any and all related mandates and subsidies. Immediately. Permanently. Forever. Got it?
   
2. Start drilling in ANWR, the coastal shelf and the Gulf of Mexico. This morning. No later than after lunch.
3. Dump the CAFE standards. Repeal the horrible new energy bill. And encourage Detroit to tell D.C. to drop dead as they have no Constitutional authority to impose any CAFE standards. Remember, CAFE standards kill people.
   
4. Stop interfering in the credit markets. NOW! 85 years ago the tinkering of D.C. and the Fed Res set up all the conditions for the 1929 Crash. And the efforts of Washington to correct their own problem gave us The Great Depression.(Yah, I linked it twice. It's that important to read what happens when the government helps to find solutions to the problems it creates).

Again, simple. But not easy. It involves a whole bunch of super egos to admit they were wrong. Have been for decades. We conservatives have known it for decades. Yet for some mysterious reason, voters keep electing these people. I don't get it. I never have.
The only thing that will stop this is when your pain becomes so intolerable that Americans will finally vote the truth,not the empty promises.

Cheap entertainment

Last week after Super Tuesday II, I was in the chat room for Ed Morrisey's Blog Talk Radio Show. As Hillary made a comeback of sorts the topic was how this changed the race for the Democratic nomination and what the Repubs should do. Well my feeling and input is the same: You put two badgers into a tightly sealed metal garbage can and then beat on the sides. Then take the cover off in early September and watch what crawls out.
And for cut rate yuks, throw in a superdelegate NY Governor, a former 1984 female Democratic V.P. candidate and for spice add a racist hate mongering pastor, then slam down the lid...then just listen for a bit.
The gift that keeps on giving.
It so reminds me of the quote "Every revolution eats its children" and the Biblical principle of sowing and reaping.

Yah couldn't write this stuff

Allahpundit at Hot Air has a great clip from The Daily Show with a report on Code Pink and the Berkley City Council resolution against the Marine Recruiters. I have had run ins with what I call Code Pinky Winky. They spout and continue to spout any and all lack-of-logic-looney-left-language that we've come to expect from people who lack any reasoning ability. Listen to this. It is priceless. And it reminds me of every single occurence I've ever had in talking to Code Pinky Winky:


(I had problems with the embed from Hot Air and now YouTube so I used the embed from The Daily Show

John Dewey and the NEA

A California appeals court has found that California parents are idiots and dangerous to the future of their children. The appeals court has found that parents do not have a right to home school their own children. well, that is unless of course they are "credentialed" by the state. And of course, the NEA (National Education Association) heavily influences what passes as credentials. Well, The Eagle Forum has a great article on our good buddies at the NEA and what a bunch of screaming lefties they are. Pat Buchanan in his book "The Death of the West" also has a chapter on how the socialist influences of late 19th and early 20th century took root in our education system via the Frankfurt School and "cultural marxism".
Any guesses as to which party the NEA overwhelmingly contributes to? Read it here.
Wonder why lefties and lefty reps in the State Legislature and Congress hate home schooling? $$$'s.

And now, more adventures of Our Little Amy

Today, as we peek in on Our Little Amy, we observe her excellent and awe inspiring adventures and insight as a bio-pharmacologist and business mogul (here):
Seems that about 3,000 children a year are born with a heart condition called PDA (patent ductus arteriosis). It's a heart defect that can be cured with either a drug ( that's manufactured by a company called Ovation Pharmaceuticals ) or with surgery. Pretty neat. But,oh no- not for Our Little Amy!
The drug, called Indocin I.V. was researched and developed by Merck. Merck sold the drug to Ovation. Ovation now manufactures and distributes the drug. When Merck sold Indocin, the therapy cost $108. Ovation charges $1500. And Our Little Amy sees that the vile, repugnant and evil Ovation is reaping huge, unconscionable windfall profits on poor defenseless little babies (the same babies that Our Little Amy is more than happy to have killed via abortion). And Our Little Amy is NOT going to let this injustice go unpunished, I tell you! "We need to highlight how messed up the system is when a pharmaceutical company can rip off premature infants with bad hearts," she said Friday." You go girl!! Now, vile repugnant Ovation throws up a paltry and easily laughable defense-"It's a complex process when you're moving manufacturing from one facility to another, let alone one company to another," said Sally Benjamin Young, a spokeswoman. " Ha! We all know that Our Little Amy is an expert in bio-pharmacology.We also know that Our Little Amy, being an expert in all the thick books of all the FDA regulations that both Merck and Ovation had to know, meet and comply with to even begin the process of selling Indocin, well she saw right through that little charade of an excuse that Ovation laughably offered. Also, that Our Little Amy, with her vast background in business, drug manufacturing, margin and recovery costs (just to name a very few of her areas of expertise) knows that Ovation is just heartless. She, of course, knows that Merck is huge and makes billions of dollars (most earned unethically, of course) and that Merck may have buried the cost of this orphan drug (any drug with a prospective treatment audience of 200,000 or less) in and amongst all it profits on other pharmaceuticals. Naturally Our Little Amy then immediately recognized that Ovation's price was WAY beyond what perhaps the actual manufacturing , recovery, acquisition and compliance costs may be in that the treatment audience is only 3,000. And Our Little Amy was willing to severely punish Ovation for taking a business risk-"She's calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and wants the Food and Drug Administration to move faster to approve generic versions of the drug, which would cost far less" . OK, that should serve as a warning to any and all bloodsucking pharmaceutical companies that Our Little Amy isn't going to stand for companies profiting from innovation and risk taking! How dare they meet and comply with FDA regulations, EEOC, OSHA, IRS to find miracle drugs for us. Why, there might even be people out there who would say "Ya' mean there's a drug that for only $1500 can cure a heart condition in a little baby? WOW. Don't we live in the greatest nation on earth?" They need to be shown the error of their ways! And Our Little Amy has the vast and deep knowledge to do just that! Never mind that Ovation is the only company that makes a drug for PDA. But ah, Our Little Amy knows that there are 100's of companies chomping at the bit to make a generic version of a drug with just 3,000 possible customers. Does the wonderment and amazement of her knowledge, insight, wisdom and acute business acumen ever end? And we are so blessed to have Our Little Amy as, well, Our Little Amy out there working for us as a bastion against all those innovative pharmaceutical companies that could come up with, well, who knows what overpriced miracle drug .
Be sure to tune in again for the further adventures of Our Little Amy!
And be sure to visit Our Little Amy's sponsors :The Joseph Stalin School of Business and Management and the Hugo Chavez Academy for Advanced Political Thought.

When non-experts speak

As I was doing my morning news review, I went to the Drudge Report and saw this screamer headline:"Introducing the world's smallest gun that fires deadly 300 mph bullets! " complete with exclamation point! Many people know me as a certified firearms instructor. And a member of the leadership group ( a late joining member) that was responsible for passing the Minnesota Personal Protection Act (misnamed Conceal/Carry). So, I immediately knew that this was an idiot headline.
300 mph as a deadly speed is relative. A glacier moving at 300 mph would be miraculously stunning. A jet flying at 300 mph is creeping along. A comet speeding at 300 mph is not speeding. A train that goes 300 mph is noteworthy. A bullet at 300 mph is a weak sister. Real weak. 300 mph equates to 440 fps (feet per second). Ballistically that is termed as sub-sonic (sonic or the speed of sound is generally considered to be 1,100 fps). My 45 shoots at a muzzle velocity of around 830 fps. That is considered a slow round. With a heavy bullet. The reason speed is important is because it figures into muzzle energy. Speed and the weight of the round are put into a formula that tells us what the "work" of that round will be. So, taking 300 mph (440 fps and reading the article, the headline is also wrong as the speed is 270 mph and therefore muzzle speed is 330 fps) and that this is a very small round (light weight) and doing the conversion (from the Swiss Mini-Gun website ) equates to less than a foot pound of energy. The Swiss Mini-Gun website also says that the round has less energy than a BB gun. Now, don't get me wrong. I would have no desire to put the muzzle up against any part of my body. Or anything else for that matter as I observe the safety maxim "Don't ever point the muzzle of a firearm at anything that you're not willing to destroy".
But as you read the article, the writer found someone who he described as a "consultant forensics consultant" and "firearms expert " and who spoke in dire terms: puncturing skin and bones, threshold, lethal etc. However, all his warnings of lethality, when put into analysis of the facts as presented, put the specter of serious doubt as to his expertise. And the real agenda of the writer.
And this is same screaming lack of logic, we found an "expert who agrees with our agenda" that you hear from the left-on nearly every issue.