The real reason
Now that’s childish
Sucks that there are no schoo children and black people available as targets.
Their averages are still fucked.
American police officers will spend 43 rounds on a single eight year old jaywalker while the average Japanese assassin requires less than three rounds per Prime Minister.
*47 rounds
While the one Japanese assassin requires one round per 47 Prime Ministers.
Hey we aim for quantity of bullets not accuracy, gotta hit as many schoolchildren as possible!
mfw the shooting venue wasn’t a school
Don’t be rude.
The venue could also be a populated street, a supermarket, or a playground. Our mass shootings aren’t just limited to helpless school children.
i apologize; that was culturally insensitive.
You don’t gotta aim to bit a crowd of kids at a school.
That’s what an extended mag is for ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
AKA Spray 'n Pray.
Shots and prayers 🙏
No no… America has always been about quantity over quality. This proves that.
At Olympic competition you just don’t have black people or school children as targets. Which is a severe disadvantage for American shooters.
In fairness, you see that chick from South Korea?
To anyone who is curious, that little elephant plush is her daughter’s who gave it to her mom for good luck…or the mom just really wanted it, I wasn’t there
I will never have that kind of swagger
That grip on that thing is crazy.
It looks like they took a wooden block and CNC’d her hand shape into it and nothing else. I’d like to see it from the other side.
Something like this
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
I don’t have the slightest idea what I am looking at other than a girl holding a gun in a way that looks painful
The rule is you have to hold it single handed. Then everything follows logic, you need to have the arm fully extended to be more stable. You need to keep your eye behind the iron sights. etc. Try it out yourself, extend your arm and see if you can find a more stable position.
Incredible. I just used my sons nerf toys, and there’s just no way to do it to line everything up without leaning to get your head at the level with the pistol.
The gun itself is the painful looking part. I’ve never seen a pistol that wraps around your thumb like that. Her stance seems perfect, give or take a little lean.
Having used a similar gun, it’s way more comfy than you think.
Are you really critiquing the stance of an Olympic level athlete?
No, I’m critiquing the other poster that was critiquing her posture, which as I mentioned is exemplary.
Reading comprehension is hard, but it’s never too late to learn.
give or take a little lean
Critique is analysis.
OHHHHH GOODNESS HOW COULD I FORGET THAT LEANING 3 DEGREES IN A DIRECTION WOULD GET YOU DISQUALIFIED.
Tell me you’re angry over innocuous details without telling me you’re a nitpicky assinine idiot. Please, I’ll wait.
Meh, you critiqued, and said you didn’t. Own it I guess.
And angry, no, not worth my time. Pedantic? Sure.
I definitely would not want to be the guy who tried to mug her.
Remember that in modern countries she wouldn’t be allowed to carry that
I’d say that really depends on the country. Unless you don’t consider Czechia or Switzerland modern.
You can get a permit to carry a gun in Switzerland if you actually have a good reason for it, like being a security guard. Otherwise you can transport it to your shooting range as long as it isn’t loaded. So I wouldn’t really say she could carry that in this context.
Also walking around with a gun is very frowned upon in Europe, even when there’s a reason.
she looks like an arena shooter character.
i bet she can go partially invisible for 20 seconds with a cooldown of 7 and throws mad stun bombs
I just permaban her
Is this a Futurama reference?
Well, you get a weapon without proving that you got the skills to use it… So, this does not surprise me…
At this point we’ve only had finals for the events that use children’s guns. I’m not really surprised that China would beat us at shooting children’s guns. They’d probably win a tricycle race too.
I thought American guns Are for shooting children…
No, they’re for shooting ourselves when we’ve had enough of the crushing capitalism.
Til 12 gauge double barrel shotguns are for children.
Big colourful bullets so little fingies can use them. It’s basically a nerf gun!
What guns do you imagine they will shoot next? Are you expecting the event to be sponsored by Armalite? Do you think Kalashnikova will show?
I think OP was pointing out that several of the competitions use air guns, but conveniently glossed over the one with shotguns (which I’m sure OP will love to know, China got a silver medal…)
Also, the air guns they use are absolutely not for children.
It’s like saying they throw a discus for children in that sport because it looks like a frisbee.
Shotguns. No, and no.
It’d be nice if they had a long range category with real rifles. Most countries are already uncomfortable letting their people have access to Olympic pea shooters, so I don’t think we’ll ever see 1000 meter shooting as an event.
You do know shooting sport guns are built specifically for shooting sports at the Olympic level, right? You seem to think power is more important than accuracy. I doubt any of the athletes agree.
But I’m sure there’s some sort of “Redneck Games” or something where people use AR-15s with bump stocks and Colt .45s to target shoot. You should check YouTube.
I’m just not impressed with any marksmanship that maxes out at 100 meters. Regardless of how powerful a gun is it’s not impressive to be accurate at such a short range. I don’t care about how powerful the gun is, I just want to see it fling something far enough to be interesting.
You know they hit about within a half inch circle at 55 yards. That is with iron sights and the weapon not supported! This is really remarkable. If my top of the head calculation is correct this is about 1 MOA. Better than the hardware error alone of older/ lower end guns.
It is still super boring to watch however.
Hahahaha why aren’t you in the bloody Olympics then if it’s that easy?
I’m sure we’re all sorry that the world’s best target shooters don’t impress you. Unfortunately, no one took you into consideration when arranging the Olympics.
The world’s best target shooters under a very specific and particular set of circumstances, usually indoors. It’s like you’re trying to insult me for not being impressed at the driving skills of the world’s best indoor go-kart racers.
No, I’m trying to suggest that if you don’t like it, don’t watch it. What’s the point in telling everyone why Olympic athletes don’t impress you?
Like every single olympic sport can only be performed in a very specific and particular set of circumstances. What is this bizarre gatekeeping?
Oh, I didn’t realise there was a drone strike event coming up.
It could legitimately be an Olympic sport. Although they would need to disguise the name by calling it something like “precision drone-flying” where the goal is to drop a water balloon filled with paint onto a target or something
You’re just making up a sport for the Ukrainians so they can get a gold medal
They’ve been through a lot, they should get something nice from it.
Maybe the army guys that the US sent over for trap shooting got lost on the way?
Or perhaps shotguns are for babies, and they only know how to fire rockets or something.
TIL some people think there’s such a thing as a gun for children.
Well we do have frequent school shootings in America, so any gun that’s been used must be a children’s gun right? /S
This comment makes me sad
if you told me they sell a gun specifically for children in texas i would absolutely believe it.
that state is fucking crazy
There’s a brand of 22 rifles named cricket that are specifically designed to teach children how to shoot they’ve got built-in safety locks that are a bitch if you lose the key
I was just in the bass pro shop in Memphis the other day, and I did in fact see light caliber rifles specifically marketed for children to use.
…i mean, i got my first BB gun in third grade and my first twenty-gauge in fourth grade, both youth firearms for christmas in texas; our semi-automatic twenty-twos were hand-me-downs from younger cousins in mississippi who’d graduated to thirty-thirties…
They do in California too. It’s the whole country.
Aren’t you from Indiana? I just assumed y’all had free .22s for underprivileged children.
They probably did in most of Indiana, but I grew up in Bloomington and it’s the evil librul leftie commie part of Indiana where a bunch of old hippies who are still hippies settled around the horrible liberal indoctrination center of Indiana University, so they only gave us water pistols.
Oh that makes sense. You were indoctrinated by the evil IU. Why I bet that Kinsey man taught you all sorts of left wing lies like that it’s more ok for a man to love another man than to love his rifle in an intimate way.
As a matter of fact, that is a thing that exists. I had a special child-sized .22 rifle when I was 5 years old. My parents kept it safely stored and allowed me to practice with it under close supervision. Sears made them, marketed as a “youth” model.
When you say “children’s gun” do you mean a gun for children to use, or a gun designed to use on children?
For children to use.
We love shooting guns, doesn’t mean we’re any good at accuracy!
As someone who has played league of legends for over a decade without any notable improvement, I can fully relate.
I can picture the American shooters just doing pray and spray and drive bys
You’re not wrong.
What do you expect? There are no political dissenters or uppity uyghurs in China. Not anymore.
Guess where the Olympians trained their shooting skills.
That’s why muricans need assault rifles.
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