Comments on: Fatal shooting in New York City https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:17:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814432 Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:17:16 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814432 I suspect that the ONLY way to prevent those kind of injuries is to slow down the game.
Here’s an idea: replace football cleats (and nubs—or whatever is worn on artificial turf) with special sports “stilettos”.

(Of course that would open up the game to other kinds of injuries…as well as add a whole new set of penalties…but it would reduce if not mostly eliminate concussions and the like.)

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814423 Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:53:57 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814423 Toying with some ideas about how to retain as much of the strength, speed, and strategy of football without the full on forces involved in tackling:
1) convert to a difficult version of flag football, but rather than a long easily grabbed flag, have one or more “detachable modules” on a player’s belt (or elsewhere on the uniform?), that requires significant force to grab and pull free (say 20 to 30 pounds? More? Less? “Velcro plus” or magnetic or ???)
2) Perhaps more “points” for grabbing a back or side module over the other?? Or vice versa, whichever is more difficult. [Does this get into the points systems analogous to gymnastics or figure skating?]
3) or grabbing two modules, say one in back and one on the side, or on both sides?? This might more closely simulate a tackle?

Still involves the forces of blocking, which may remain significant but maybe not as serious? Some tumbles and falls/rolls can still be expected for a vigorous game, but less full on collisions?

[Disclosure: I was/am on the small side for my age cohort, so I never actually played tackle football. If you have, you may find these ideas flawed in some way?]

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814299 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:04:42 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814299 Regarding CTE, force equal mass times acceleration. Decreasing players’ mass decreases the force of hits. The best way to do this is to limit roster sizes so players have to play more minutes. Playing “both ways” was common through the ’60s.

My father played in High School (as did I). He played in the pre-facemask era and he insisted the addition of the facemask to helmets exacerbated injuries and concussions. Playing with no facemask, he said, defenders naturally protected their own faces and heads. His theory was the facemask encouraged players to use their heads as weapons. The NFL now has strict, “targeting” rules in place to try to prevent using the helmet and its contents as a weapon, but maybe my dad was right?

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814236 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:29:33 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814236 The fellow the shooter referenced

https://archive.triblive.com/news/ex-steelers-lineman-indicted-for-arson-fraud-perjury/

Perhaps another reason that he committed suicide

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814232 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:46:40 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814232 This maybe fatal to Mandami’s campaign

]]> By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814230 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:05:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814230 In case anyone either does not know or has somehow forgotten, there are many males who have a surfeit of testosterone. For them, aggression is a way of life. I would prefer that they have a legitimate outlet for that aggression, of which football is one very lucrative outlet. All other contact sports play a similar role. This is a biological fact and can’t be wished away, nor should it be. Male aggression plays a role in stabilizing society, whether that society is human, canine, feline, bovine, or what have you. Male aggression, properly channeled is quite normal. It is the attempt to castrate men, physically, psychologically or metaphorically that is aberrant.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814229 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:59:37 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814229 @selfy: I haven’t seen any other source claiming the shooter shouted “Free Palestine.”

]]> By: Marisa https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814226 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:31:32 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814226 Tamura is a Japanese surname, so it appears that he has a Japanese father and a black mother.

I know some serious lefties who are big 49’ers fans, as well as fans of other sports.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814223 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:19:20 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814223 Got an answer…of sorts…:

“NYC shooter Shane Tamura admitted to having suicidal thoughts — but was still allowed gun permit: sources”—
https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/nyc-shooter-shane-tamura-admitted-to-having-suicidal-thoughts-but-was-still-allowed-gun-permit-sources/

Go figure.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/fatal-shooting-in-new-york-city/#comment-2814214 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:27:01 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143082#comment-2814214 Given his “known” mental-health history, I’m not sure why this guy had a gun license, let alone one for concealed carry.

Nevada?

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