For today, my opinion is about our entertainment.
Growing up it was the Cowboy movies with six guns that never ran out of ammo.
Movies with “Ten Second” race cars dragging 20 ton safes filled with more weight in cash down streets at high speeds. A race car is not build for brute power.
Pilots flying, with skill, anything that flies. A Marine fighter Jock going from an F-18 to UH-1 Chopper. An Ultra-lite pilot cannot fly a 787, not without spending tens of thousands lf dollars and a lot of hours in type.
Rambo and Rambo clones tucking an M-60 under their arm and firing a 200-round belt of ammo with no recoil or muzzle rise.
Firing anti-tank rockets from inside vehicles and no one is hurt from the rocket motor blast.
Cops and “Snipers” with all of their trigger finger on the trigger, and is shot is accurate.
People hitting targets with a handgun at 200 yards.
M-16 with a front post sight, and a scope attached to Pitney Rail. I’ve always wondered how the crosshairs can be seen on target with that big front sight blocking the view.
Semi auto pistols with the slide lock open and hearing the click, click, click, as the person attempts to fire an empty weapon.
Kids hacking Ballistic Missile subs.
The same people guarding the nukes have the launch/arming codes
Hell, storing nukes in warehouses in the middle of a major city.
This is not limited to TV shows and movies either. I remember one book in a series where the hero and two friends ride into a motorcycle gangs camp where more than a thousand armed gang members are holding the damsel in distress and get girl out with nary a scratch.
Seriously?
Okay, I feel better now, but Sandi is still going to hear me say, “Oh, bullshit, that can’t happen.” When we watch shows and movies.