Gun Control thread (merged many)

[Betonov]

I just wasted 15min of my life googling up freak accidents with frying pans and the only thing I found is that teflon may poison pet birds.

Avalanches kill people

[August]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I just wasted 15min of my life googling up freak accidents with frying pans and the only thing I found is that teflon may poison pet birds.

Avalanches kill people

They shoot avalanches you know!

[Betonov]

I'm from the Alps remember
It's an established doctrine that you can wipe out a company of men by a well placed mortar hit on a mountain to triger an avalanche.
Terrible way to go. A bullet is fast, but an avalanche will burry you in just enough snow to slowly compress your chest so you can only take small shallow breaths and you start loosing oxygen internaly even before that small pocket of air runs out of O2.

And that's why I don't ski

And they shoot avalanches for controlled triger. Before enough snow accumulates to make a nasty avalanche they close of the area and fire a mortar round into the mountain to star a more harmless localised avalanche.

[August]

Originally Posted by Betonov

And that's why I don't ski

I don't believe that has ever been a problem at any of the New England ski slopes. Our mountains are just too small!

[Betonov]

Neither in Slovenia to be honest.
All ski resrts are either up a hill near urban areas or on plateus, rarely 1500m above sea level, while Swiss or French resorts are frequently above 2000m and get more snow. Not to mention now we get the same amount of snow per season what we got per month 20 years ago.

Avalanches are the hikers danger here, not so much skier