When shooting someone with a pistol isn't enough

[Tom Sawyer]

This is a situation that I'm sure we've all found ourselves in from time to time. You're a young dictator trying to rule your country with an iron fist, but all of your dad's old cronies keep disrespecting you. You execute a bunch of them, but it just keeps happening.

Here's a helpful tip that will hopefully keep the rest of the annoying old bastards in line. Instead of just once again using a boring old headshot with a pistol, try marching them out into the middle of a public square and blasting them down with an anti-aircraft gun.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korean-military-chief-executed-for-treason-souths-spy-agency-says/2015/05/12/840d0302-9b85-4ddc-92d5-2f6d45db64ce_story.html

North Korea’s equivalent of a defense minister has been executed by anti-aircraft gun for insubordination and treason — including for sleeping during a meeting in which Kim Jong Un was speaking

It puts the capital O in Object Lesson.

 

[krypton iodine sulfur]

That's pretty disturbing, if true. Unless they dressed him up like an aircraft before shooting him, of course.

 

[Trausti]

Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

I prefer the good old days, when people were strapped to the mouth of a cannon, which was then fired. However, if the AA battery needed practice, and the guy was allowed to run, that would be fine also.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Well, a shell point-blank you won't feel. There shouldn't be much left of you either.

 

[SimpleDon]

Presumably it was a 23mm cannon shell from a ZU-23, just a little less than one inch for any metric phobics. The good news is that the shell probably wouldn't have travelled far enough to arm the explosive. However, an approximately 200 gram shell traveling at a little less than 1000 m/s will have a lot of kinetic energy, probably enough to cut a human body in half.

From memory for comparison a 1911 45 caliber ACP fires a 12 gram bullet at 330 m/s, approximately.

 

[beero1000]

Presumably it was a 23mm cannon shell from a ZU-23, just a little less than one inch for any metric phobics. The good news is that the shell probably wouldn't have travelled far enough to arm the explosive. However, an approximately 200 gram shell traveling at a little less than 1000 m/s will have a lot of kinetic energy, probably enough to cut a human body in half.

From memory for comparison a 1911 45 caliber ACP fires a 12 gram bullet at 330 m/s, approximately.

News story I read said ZPU4 at a range of 100ft, which would mean four 14.5mm guns. Rounds are ~60g each at 1000m/s and likely FMJ. Ouch.

 

[thebeave]

Not sure about this. Wasn't there another report recently that the little dictator fucker threw his uncle into a cage of hungry dogs and they chewed him to bits. Turned out that wasn't true.

Plus, aren't evil dictators supposed to use more creative ways of killing their enemies? You know, like hanging them by a rope over an alligator pit while candle slowly burns the rope? Blasting the guy with giant guns just seems so hum drum.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So is North Korea the proof that capital punishment doesn't work? If people are willing to fall asleep in a speech when they know they could be punished with anti-aircraft fire...

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Ragnar Lobbroks was thrown into a snake pit.

 

[dystopian]

Presumably it was a 23mm cannon shell from a ZU-23, just a little less than one inch for any metric phobics. The good news is that the shell probably wouldn't have travelled far enough to arm the explosive. However, an approximately 200 gram shell traveling at a little less than 1000 m/s will have a lot of kinetic energy, probably enough to cut a human body in half.

From memory for comparison a 1911 45 caliber ACP fires a 12 gram bullet at 330 m/s, approximately.

First Person Shooters have taught me that Shilka's are superb anti-infantry platforms.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Well, a shell point-blank you won't feel. There shouldn't be much left of you either.

Yeah, I don't see it as particularly heinous. It will make quite a mess but it should be a quick death even if they don't manage to put the rounds in the 10 ring.

 

[Bronzeage]

Not sure about this. Wasn't there another report recently that the little dictator fucker threw his uncle into a cage of hungry dogs and they chewed him to bits. Turned out that wasn't true.

Plus, aren't evil dictators supposed to use more creative ways of killing their enemies? You know, like hanging them by a rope over an alligator pit while candle slowly burns the rope? Blasting the guy with giant guns just seems so hum drum.

Ill tempered sea bass with lasers strapped to their fricking heads.

 

[arkirk]

There seems to be a lot of ho-hum going on here. North Korea is definitely not without its faults, but it also is propagandaed to death by our press. We don't know if it even happened. If it did, then that is awful. Someone should warn Kim not to act like Obama and just order people killed.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

There seems to be a lot of ho-hum going on here. North Korea is definitely not without its faults, but it also is propagandaed to death by our press. We don't know if it even happened. If it did, then that is awful. Someone should warn Kim not to act like Obama and just order people killed.

Wow. I get dissing the U.S., but you're taking it a bit far here. This is fucking Kim Jong Un we're talking about here. Have a bit of perspective.

 

[bilby]

If only someone had been around in the early 1930s to warn Hitler not to act like Stalin and just order people killed.

Or if only someone had been around in 1917 to warn Stalin and Lenin to not act like the Tsar and just order people killed.

Or if only someone had been around in 1914 to warn Gavrilo Princip not to act like a fool and just shoot Archduke Ferdinand.

What a loss to international peace it has been, that nobody ever thought of just warning violent murderous thugs not to be violent murderous thugs.

 

[Trausti]

If only someone had been around in the early 1930s to warn Hitler not to act like Stalin and just order people killed.

Or if only someone had been around in 1917 to warn Stalin and Lenin to not act like the Tsar and just order people killed.

Or if only someone had been around in 1914 to warn Gavrilo Princip not to act like a fool and just shoot Archduke Ferdinand.

What a loss to international peace it has been, that nobody ever thought of just warning violent murderous thugs not to be violent murderous thugs.

If only Hitler had passed his art school entrance exam. History's odd like that.

 

[tupac chopra]

There seems to be a lot of ho-hum going on here. North Korea is definitely not without its faults, but it also is propagandaed to death by our press. We don't know if it even happened. If it did, then that is awful. Someone should warn Kim not to act like Obama and just order people killed.

Who knows whether it really happened. There was a story a while ago saying that he had his uncle eaten by a pack of dogs, but apparently it was bullshit. This is probably bullshit too.
Did North Korea's Kim Jong-un really kill his uncle with 120 starving dogs?

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There seems to be a lot of ho-hum going on here. North Korea is definitely not without its faults, but it also is propagandaed to death by our press. We don't know if it even happened. If it did, then that is awful. Someone should warn Kim not to act like Obama and just order people killed.

Wow. I get dissing the U.S., but you're taking it a bit far here. This is fucking Kim Jong Un we're talking about here. Have a bit of perspective.

Yes, this is Kim Jong Un...and he's that evil guy who had his uncle eaten by dogs

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

There seems to be a lot of ho-hum going on here. North Korea is definitely not without its faults, but it also is propagandaed to death by our press.

True. Expats of North Korea have nothing but great things to say about it.

We don't know if it even happened. If it did, then that is awful. Someone should warn Kim not to act like Obama and just order people killed.

Left-wing Moore-Coulter?

 

[dystopian]

S-Korea's National Intelligence Service has revised its earlier statement.

"South Korea's spy agency said it cannot confirm the execution of North Korea defense chief Hyon Yong Chol, hours after making the opposite claim to South Korean lawmakers. "

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-N...xecuted-says-Seouls-spy-agency/1931431522581/