i think the reason i get so irritated with tumblr now is because everyone’s always so angry and everything has to be a debate and i’m just? too old? like go play in your salt mines children and leave grandma alone
Channeling every ounce of San Clemente that seeped into me for the two years I lived there to write a story for my class, then I’m gonna run through the two feet of snow in my backyard to wash it off.
So my astronomy lab professor has old vet syndrome and likes to just ramble on and on and make random comparisons to the army that no one gets.
But last night he couldn’t get the computer to stop refreshing a program, so when the window popped up it would chime, but he just decided to ignore it and carry on lecturambling.
Well eventually he gave up and went over to the computer and said louder than he should have, “shut up, you damn communist!”
And in that moment I realized I too have old vet syndrome.
this is my fratsona. his name is Chad and he’s a business major with a minor in economics. he’s a part of the phi kappa pi clan and has +16 speed when he unironically wears his adidas brand weed socks
He gun-toting side of tumblr, got some questions for you for a short story. I know very little about weaponry outside of basic gun safety, so bear with me.
I’m proofreading a pretty lousy short story for my fiction writing class and it ends with a PTSD addled vet (surprise!) shooting his four friends dead during an episode. And if it couldn’t get more tropey trite, he’s an ex-sniper. Character Jimmy carries around an m24 (that’s the only info on the rifle I get from the story, it’s called an m24) in his truck like a security blanket (it’s literally only covered by a blanket), whips it out and shoots his four friends dead from an undesignated distance, but contextually about a front yard’s distance away.
Here’s what I want to know: is this even possible? Can an “m24” shoot four people at such close range dead before they even can process it, would a “sniper” even do that?
From my understanding, rifles get less accurate at short distances, and logically I would think that for close range encounters, a “sniper” would carry a less wieldy gun. Wouldn’t their training have them react differently to getting stuck in what they think is a firefight? But am I completely wrong? I tried looking it up online and couldn’t find anything conclusive or helpful.
Any thoughts or tips to give this writer would be great, thanks!
