Democrats Should Refuse to Continue to Support Stupidity and Cowardice
A craven group of Democrats is furious with Beto O’Rourke for calling for the mandatory sale of assault rifles to the United States.
一群胆怯的民主党人对贝托·奥罗克呼吁向美国强制出售突击步枪感到愤怒。
Reuters’ headline says it all: “O’Rourke’s ‘hell yes’ vow to take away rifles worries U.S. lawmakers pushing for gun limits.” Seriously?
路透社的标题说明了一切：“奥罗克‘绝对是的’誓言取消步枪，这让推动枪支限制的美国立法者感到担忧。”严重地？
Democratic lawmakers (who have adopted no meaningful federal law in response to tens of thousands of gun deaths and maiming) are upset because a prominent Democrat proposed a law to get military-style assault rifles out of civilian life.
民主党议员（他们没有通过任何有意义的联邦法律来应对数以万计的枪击死亡和致残事件）感到不安，因为一位著名的民主党人提出了一项法律，要求将军用突击步枪从平民生活中剔除。
Granted, the Republicans have patented their right to be the party of stupid, but Democrats should not compete by becoming the party of less stupid, but equally cowardly.
诚然，共和党已经获得了成为愚蠢政党的专利，但民主党不应该通过成为不那么愚蠢但同样懦弱的政党来进行竞争。
Some issues are hard.
有些问题很难。
Assault rifles held by civilians are not.
平民持有的突击步枪则不然。
I decided to research how the crazies are defending assault rifles.
我决定研究一下那些疯子是如何保卫突击步枪的。
I found ‘double-dumb.’ I found a wannabe leader encouraging Americans to own assault rifles – and embrace austerity to prevent imminent hyperinflation.
我发现“双重愚蠢”。我发现一位想成为领导人的人鼓励美国人拥有突击步枪，并拥抱紧缩政策以防止迫在眉睫的恶性通货膨胀。
His website informs us “Warren Redlich was the 2010 Libertarian candidate for Governor of New York State.” His leading cause is ‘fairness’ to drunk drivers, which is a revealing priority.
他的网站告诉我们“沃伦·雷德利希 (Warren Redlich) 是 2010 年纽约州州长的自由党候选人。”他的首要目标是对醉酒司机的“公平”，这是一个具有启发意义的优先事项。
His website includes a page entitled “Hyperinflation 2013” – which is even more revealing.
他的网站上有一个名为“Hyperinflation 2013”的页面——这更具启发性。
Six years later, we still have record low global inflation and negative interest rates.
六年后，全球通胀率和负利率仍然创下历史新低。
Redlich urged Republicans to refuse to increase the debt limit in 2011 so the United States would default on its debts – or (illegally) cease paying Social Security benefits to avoid the default.
雷德利奇敦促共和党人拒绝在 2011 年提高债务上限，以免美国拖欠债务 — — 或（非法）停止支付社会保障福利以避免拖欠债务。
Libertarian candidates once opposed being stupid, but they are now actively competing with the Republicans in the race to unreality.
自由主义候选人曾经反对愚蠢，但现在他们正在与共和党人积极竞争，走向不现实。
Readers need to recall that I am a criminologist.
读者需要记住我是一名犯罪学家。
The AR 15 is an assault rifle.
AR 15 是一款突击步枪。
“AR” stands for assault rifle.
“AR”代表突击步枪。
It is essentially the M 16, the world’s premier assault rifle, except that it is semi-automatic.
它本质上就是世界上首屈一指的突击步枪 M 16，只不过它是半自动的。
It is revealing that the mass murderers who have made the AR 15 infamous have not converted it to fully automatic and have rarely had military training with small arms.
揭露真相的是，让 AR 15 声名狼藉的大屠杀凶手并没有将其改装为全自动，也很少接受使用小型武器的军事训练。
For a ‘wannabe’ mass murderer, semi-automatic is a superior choice.
对于“想要成为”大规模杀人犯的人来说，半自动是更好的选择。
It reduces the risk of jamming and ammunition needs (ammunition is heavy and bulky) and increases the probability of hitting the humans he is trying to murder.
它减少了干扰的风险和弹药需求（弹药又重又大），并增加了击中他试图谋杀的人类的可能性。
How does the Libertarian party’s candidate for Governor of New York, an NRA member and attorney who specializes in representing people tried for illegal gun ownership, argue that we are making the world a better place whenever more of us own an AR 15?
自由党的纽约州长候选人、全国步枪协会成员和律师，专门代理因非法拥有枪支而受审的人，他如何辩称，只要有更多人拥有 AR 15，我们就可以让世界变得更美好？
He makes two arguments.
他提出两个论点。
I am not making this up: he begins his argument by noting that a baseball batter can be hit by a 100 m.p.h.
这不是我编造的：他在论证开始时指出，棒球击球手可能会被 100 英里/小时的速度击中。
pitch without suffering serious injury.
投球时没有受到严重伤害。
Recall that my theme is that assault rifles in civilian hands are an example of an indefensibly stupid policy we cannot afford to continue.
回想一下，我的主题是平民手中的突击步枪是我们无法承受继续下去的无可辩驳的愚蠢政策的一个例子。
I trust our readers know enough about physics, baseball, and rifles to realize that his baseball example is irrelevant.
我相信我们的读者对物理学、棒球和步枪有足够的了解，能够意识到他的棒球例子是无关紧要的。
I write to develop an additional theme.
我写这篇文章是为了开发一个额外的主题。
Stupid is often a cover for a darker pathology – hate combined with rabid fear against the ‘other.’
愚蠢常常掩盖了一种更黑暗的病态——仇恨与对“他人”的狂热恐惧相结合。
Redlich claims the AR 15 is such a wimpy weapon that a poorly trained civilian needs a huge magazine capacity.
Redlich 声称 AR 15 是一种非常弱小的武器，训练有素的平民需要巨大的弹匣容量。
A civilian under attack by a large number of criminals will probably miss his target with most of his shots.
受到大量犯罪分子攻击的平民很可能大部分射击都没有击中目标。
Even in the unusual case where he hits the person he aimed to hit, there can be no confidence that a single hit will kill or incapacitate her.
即使在这种不寻常的情况下，他击中了他想要击中的人，也不能确信一次击中就会杀死她或使她丧失能力。
Redlich implies we all need our own AR 15s for “self-defense in a WROL situation (like the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina or the Korean merchants in the Rodney King riots.” WROL is a right-wing acronym for “without rule of law.” Note that both of his examples involve raising fears of blacks, who Redlich presents as out to murder and steal.
雷德利奇暗示我们都需要我们自己的 AR 15 来“在 WROL 情况下进行自卫（例如卡特里娜飓风的后果或罗德尼金骚乱中的韩国商人。”WROL 是“没有法治”的右翼缩写。请注意，他的两个例子都涉及引起对黑人的恐惧，雷德利奇将黑人描述为谋杀和盗窃。
Both examples also rest on the assumption that one cannot, and should not, rely on a rule of law because there are evil black people and leftists out to murder you.
这两个例子都基于这样的假设：人们不能也不应该依赖法治，因为有邪恶的黑人和左派分子想要谋杀你。
If someone is attacking you and you can shoot them from 300 yards away, that’s a lot better than waiting until they’re close enough to hurt you.
如果有人攻击你，你可以从 300 码外射击他们，这比等到他们足够近来伤害你要好得多。
And a single shot from an AR-15, or even 5 shots, may not be enough to stop the bad guy at such a distance.
而 AR-15 的一发射击，甚至 5 发射击，可能不足以在如此远的距离阻止坏人。
So having a 30-round magazine is appropriate in such situations.
因此，在这种情况下，拥有 30 发弹匣是合适的。
At 300 yards, the bullets have lost more than half its energy.
在300码处，子弹已经损失了一半以上的能量。
At 500 yards they have less than a quarter of the energy they had when leaving the muzzle, and not much more than a hockey puck.
在 500 码处，它们的能量还不到离开枪口时的四分之一，只比冰球多多少。
Actually, at 900 meters, more than three times the “300 yards range” he uses, the AR 15 delivers a force experts describe as “lethal.”
事实上，AR 15 的射程为 900 米，是他使用的“300 码射程”的三倍多，其威力被专家描述为“致命”。
The most used expression for lethality is the kinetic energy of the bullet (Fig. 8).
最常用的杀伤力表达方式是子弹的动能（图 8）。
The minimum energy required to put a man out of action is generally believed to be 15 kilogram-meters (108 ft.-Lbs.) .
一般认为，使人无法行动所需的最小能量为 15 公斤米（108 英尺磅）。
The distance at which this is the projectile’s remaining energy thus is a good expression of the useful maximum range, as far as lethality is concerned.
因此，就杀伤力而言，射弹剩余能量所在的距离很好地表达了有用的最大射程。
In the …
在……
5.56 mm [it is] 900 meters.
5.56 毫米[是]900 米。
Military contractors shape bullets, of course, to penetrate and kill humans.
当然，军事承包商制造的子弹是为了穿透并杀死人类。
We shape hockey pucks and baseballs so they will rarely penetrate and kill humans.
我们塑造冰球和棒球，这样它们就很少会穿透并杀死人类。
Yes, bullets lose energy with increased range, but available AR 15 ammunition can typically develop a lethal blow at 900 meters (absent prompt, advanced medical care) and can kill far beyond that range if they strike vital areas.
是的，子弹随着射程的增加而失去能量，但可用的 AR 15 弹药通常可以在 900 米外产生致命一击（没有及时、先进的医疗护理），并且如果击中要害区域，可以在远远超出该射程的范围内造成死亡。
At 900 meters, a hit in the torso or head is frequently fatal even if the soldier receives immediate, extraordinary medical care.
在 900 米高空，即使士兵立即接受了特殊的医疗救护，躯干或头部的击中也常常是致命的。
Redlich’s fantasy that a looter will be hit five times by rounds from an AR 15 and drag himself 300 meters while bleeding out to try to steal a TV is preposterous.
Redlich 幻想，一个抢劫者会被 AR 15 的子弹击中五次，然后在流血的情况下将自己拖到 300 米外，试图偷走一台电视，这是荒谬的。
Redlich, despite his supposed expertise, ignores the role of ammunition.
尽管雷德利希拥有专业知识，但他却忽视了弹药的作用。
One can buy AR 15 rounds that will fragment or expand if they strike a body with sufficient velocity.
人们可以购买 AR 15 发子弹，如果它们以足够的速度击中身体，就会碎裂或膨胀。
Within roughly 200 meters, it is likely that the round will fragment/expand.
在大约 200 米内，子弹很可能会碎裂/扩大。
A round that fragments/expands will not simply incapacitate – it will likely kill without prompt, advanced medical treatment.
一轮碎片/扩张不仅会导致患者丧失行动能力，而且如果没有及时、先进的医疗治疗，它很可能会导致死亡。
Limiting the amount of ‘spin’ from rifling can lead to a bullet tumbling when it hits a person and its velocity slows rapidly.
限制步枪的“旋转”量可能会导致子弹在击中人时翻滚并且速度迅速减慢。
A tumbling bullet causes far more severe wounds.
翻滚的子弹会造成更严重的伤口。
Even at 500 meters, an AR 15 round that neither fragments, tumbles, nor expands will likely kill the person hit absent prompt, advanced medical care.
即使在 500 米的距离上，如果没有及时、先进的医疗护理，AR 15 子弹既不会碎裂、翻滚，也不会膨胀，也很可能杀死被击中的人。
Redlich also ignores the difference between soldiers and civilians when struck with a round from an AR 15.
当被 AR 15 子弹击中时，雷德利奇也忽略了士兵和平民之间的区别。
Soldiers are typically young and in excellent physical condition.
士兵们普遍年轻且身体状况良好。
They often have protective devices (vests and ceramic plates) designed to decrease injury.
他们通常有旨在减少伤害的防护装置（背心和陶瓷板）。
They are often highly motivated and have superb small unit cohesion.
他们往往积极性很高，并且具有极好的小单位凝聚力。
They are supported by medics that are experts in emergency medicine on the battlefield and trauma surgeons expert in treating gunshot wounds.
他们得到战场急救医学专家和枪伤治疗专家的创伤外科医生的支持。
When a soldier is shot, his fire team will often rush to his aid and seek to kill the shooter.
当一名士兵被枪杀时，他的火力小组通常会冲上去援助他并试图杀死枪手。
A looter is not a highly motivated soldier defending his nation.
掠夺者并不是一个积极主动地保卫国家的士兵。
NCOs impose fierce discipline on any soldier who fails in his duty.
士官对任何不履行职责的士兵实行严厉的纪律。
When you shoot a looter, he limps or crawls away and he has no squad mates rushing to avenge him.
当你射杀一名抢劫者时，他会一瘸一拐或爬走，并且没有队友冲过去为他报仇。
His fellow looters run away.
他的抢劫犯同伴逃跑了。
Redlich is the ‘reasonable’ face of assault weapon stupidity.
雷德利奇是攻击性武器愚蠢的“合理”面孔。
His racism takes two paragraphs to emerge.
他的种族主义需要两段文字才能显现出来。
Clay Martin’s uses racist code in his titles .
克莱·马丁在他的作品中使用了种族主义代码。
“Clay’s Guide to Urban Defense.” Yes, “urban” means people of color – and “the violent left.” To ensure he is not being too subtle, Martin then stresses that he is talking about people who live in the “inner city.” Martin describes himself as a “former Marine and Green Beret, retiring out of 3rd Special Forces Group.
《克莱的城市防御指南》。是的，“城市”意味着有色人种——以及“暴力左派”。为了确保他不会太微妙，马丁随后强调他正在谈论生活在“内城”的人们。马丁将自己描述为“前海军陆战队员和绿色贝雷帽队员，从第三特种部队退役。
He is a multi-decade and -service sniper….” That means, unlike Redlich, he actually understands the lethality of assault rifles.
他是一名服役数十年的狙击手……”这意味着，与雷德利希不同，他实际上了解突击步枪的杀伤力。
Martin begins his murderous rant with this fantasy, which he published almost exactly one year after President Trump’s praise of “good people” in the Charlottesville “unite the right” marches in favor of white supremacy.
马丁以这个幻想开始了他的凶残咆哮，几乎就在特朗普总统在夏洛茨维尔“团结右翼”支持白人至上的游行中赞扬“好人”一年后，他发表了这篇幻想。
Martin hates the people who protest against white supremacists and fascists.
马丁讨厌那些抗议白人至上主义者和法西斯主义者的人。
Setting the stage for our scenario.
为我们的场景奠定基础。
You live in the inner city.
你住在市中心。
Antifa goons have taken it over.
Antifa 暴徒已经接管了它。
The problem ballooned from a small riot to an open insurgency overnight.
一夜之间，问题从一场小骚乱升级为公开叛乱。
You are stuck in your residence.
你被困在你的住所里。
The police have left the area, retreating behind the perimeter created by the National Guard outside the city.
警察已经离开该地区，撤退到国民警卫队在城外设立的警戒线后面。
Mobs roam the streets seeking to punish the One Percent, Three Percenters, people with different colored sneakers, and anyone that looks like they may have voted Republican or Libertarian once in their lives.
暴徒在街上游荡，试图惩罚百分之一、百分之三的人、穿着不同颜色运动鞋的人，以及任何看起来可能一生中投票过共和党或自由主义者的人。
Not to mention the gangs of opportunistic looters and street thugs who see this event as an open season for depredation.
更不用说机会主义抢劫团伙和街头暴徒，他们将这一事件视为掠夺的公开季节。
Martin’s prescription for how white supremacists should respond to his blood libel of ‘the [murderous] left’ is a particular kind of assault rifle and ammunition.
马丁为白人至上主义者如何回应他对“[凶残的]左派”的血腥诽谤开出的处方是一种特殊的突击步枪和弹药。
Note his euphemism for assault weapons, and his ‘wink and nod’ to what it really means.
请注意他对攻击性武器的委婉说法，以及他对真正含义的“眨眼和点头”。
The firearms industry now brands assault weapons as MSRs – “modern sporting rifles.”
枪械行业现在将攻击性武器称为 MSR——“现代运动步枪”。
Martin emphasizes that the ammunition is the secret sauce for mass killings of fellow Americans.
马丁强调，弹药是大规模屠杀美国同胞的秘密武器。
What .308 absolutely does better is penetrate barriers, which is worth considering.
.308 绝对做得更好的是穿透障碍，这一点值得考虑。
Even with my SR-25 , one of my favorite rounds was de-linked 147-grain machine gun ammo.
即使使用我的 SR-25，我最喜欢的子弹之一还是脱链 147 格令机枪弹药。
Match-grade 175 grain will start to outpace it around 600 meters, but as mentioned above, that is rarely a concern in the streetfight.
比赛级 175 颗粒将在 600 米左右开始超过它，但如上所述，这在街头打斗中很少是一个问题。
The 147 grain, with its thick copper jacket, proved very adept at defeating barriers smaller bullets wouldn’t.
事实证明，147 格令拥有厚厚的铜壳，非常擅长突破较小子弹无法克服的障碍。
Brick, thinner concrete, mailboxes, cars — it is a winner for certain.
砖块、较薄的混凝土、邮箱、汽车——它肯定是赢家。
For an extra dose of the good stuff, remember this.
为了获得额外剂量的好东西，请记住这一点。
Machine gunners in the European theater of WWII generally preferred belts of armor piercing rounds for urban fights.
二战欧洲战区的机枪手通常更喜欢使用穿甲弹带进行城市战斗。
It won’t expand in people, for certain.
当然，它不会在人类中扩展。
But it still leaves a 30-caliber hole, which is nothing to sneeze at.
但它仍然留下了一个30口径的洞，这是不容小觑的。
And it will chew right through a brick building, to devastating effect for anyone on the inside.
它会直接咬穿砖砌建筑，对里面的任何人造成毁灭性影响。
I will translate.
我会翻译。
He advises everyone on the right to buy an assault weapon that can shoot armor piercing rounds of a materially larger size than an AR 15 shoots.
他建议所有右翼人士购买一种攻击性武器，这种武器可以发射比 AR 15 子弹大得多的穿甲弹。
He stresses that urban warfare is close range.
他强调，城市战是近距离的。
His preferred ammunition would be inferior at ranges over 600 meters compared to the specialized ammunition used in marksmanship contests and by military snipers.
与射击比赛和军事狙击手使用的专用弹药相比，他首选的弹药在 600 米以上的射程上较差。
By “delinked” he means the rounds of ammunition are normally linked together in belt-fed machine guns and SAWs!
他所说的“脱开”是指弹带供弹机枪和SAW中的弹药通常是连接在一起的！
Clips rather than belts feed ammunition into assault rifles, so the helpful ammunition manufacturers sell a version of armor piercing machine gun rounds that are “de-linked” and can be loaded into clips.
突击步枪的弹药是用弹夹而不是弹带送入的，因此乐于助人的弹药制造商出售一种“脱链”的穿甲机枪子弹，可以装入弹夹中。
He notes the disadvantage of using armor piercing machine gun shells – they do not “expand in people.” One can buy rounds for AR 15s in which the round will expand when it hits the human body.
他指出了使用穿甲机枪炮弹的缺点——它们不会“在人体内膨胀”。人们可以购买 AR 15 的子弹，其中子弹击中人体时会膨胀。
This causes much more severe wounds and makes it less likely that the round will exit the body (a “through and through”).
这会造成更严重的伤口，并使子弹不太可能离开身体（“彻底”）。
When the round does not exit the human body, it often greatly complicates emergency first aid and surgery and increases the chance of proving lethal even if the victim receives prompt, superb medical care.
当子弹没有射出人体时，通常会使紧急急救和手术变得非常复杂，并且即使受害者得到及时、优质的医疗护理，也增加了致命的可能性。
Martin wants to make sure that the Americans his ilk shoot will die.
马丁想要确保美国人他的同类射击将会死亡。
Martin explains that the 30 caliber machine gun round is sufficiently larger than the AR 15’s 22 caliber round that it will reliably kill masses of his fellow Americans even without the ability to expand when it strikes human flesh.
马丁解释说，30 口径机枪弹比 AR 15 的 22 口径机枪弹足够大，即使在击中人肉时没有扩展能力，它也能可靠地杀死大量美国同胞。
He advises his fellow supremacists to use the armor piercing machine gun rounds to kill their fellow citizens because that ammunition ensures that the entire city will become a kill zone.
他建议他的至上主义者同伴使用穿甲机枪子弹杀死他们的同胞，因为这种弹药会确保整个城市成为杀戮区。
Their fellow citizens and the police cannot hide behind cars or even brick or cement block buildings.
他们的同胞和警察不能躲在汽车甚至砖块或水泥块建筑物后面。
The supremacists’ armor piercing ammunition will “chew right through” any of these barriers.
至上主义者的穿甲弹药将“咀嚼”任何这些障碍。
The ammunition will also defeat police protective vests and ceramic plates.
该弹药还将击败警察防护背心和陶瓷板。
Redlich and Martin share a particular form of insanity.
雷德利奇和马丁都有一种特殊的精神错乱。
Redlich wants citizens to shoot at other citizens (people of color) at a range of 300 meters so that the shooters are not at risk.
雷德利奇希望公民能够在 300 米范围内向其他公民（有色人种）开枪，这样射手就不会面临危险。
300 meters is nearly 1,000 feet.
300 米接近 1,000 英尺。
It is a distance of over a block.
这是超过一个街区的距离。
Soldiers, sometimes, can recognize the enemy at that distance because of distinctive uniforms.
有时，士兵们可以通过独特的制服在一定距离内认出敌人。
We teach soldiers to exercise great care in shooting because of the danger of ‘friendly fire’ and firing on citizens.
我们教导士兵在射击时要格外小心，因为存在“友军开火”和向公民开枪的危险。
Citizens have no such training and are not subject to military “rules of engagement.” At a distance of 300 meters, citizens cannot even differentiate among people.
公民没有接受过此类培训，也不受军事“交战规则”的约束。在300米的距离内，市民甚至无法区分人群。
Whether they are women or children is often unknowable.
他们是妇女还是儿童往往是不可知的。
Whether they are carrying weapons is typically unknowable for citizens.
公民通常不知道他们是否携带武器。
Redlich and Martin want citizens, wielding assault rifles against their fellow citizens, to open fire on them at distances they cannot distinguish friend and foe.
雷德利奇和马丁希望那些挥舞着突击步枪对付同胞的公民能够在无法区分敌友的距离内向他们开火。
(Assuming fellow citizens are ‘foes’ who should be killed on sight is insane and obscene, but Redlich and Martin indulge in the murderous fantasy that thousands of “urban” types should be killed en masse .) Redlich and Martin know that when the citizens open fire at this range they will often be killing their fellow citizens without cause when they hit the people they aim at.
（假设同胞是“敌人”，一看到就应该被杀死，这是疯狂和淫秽的，但雷德利希和马丁沉迷于杀人的幻想，认为成千上万的“城市”类型应该被集体杀害。）雷德利希和马丁知道，当公民在这个范围内开火时，当他们击中目标人时，他们往往会无缘无故地杀死他们的同胞。
Redlich and Martin know that citizens firing assault rifles at targets 300 meters away will typically miss their intended targets and their rounds will continue to be routinely lethal for another two-to-three blocks and lethal if they hit heads or torsos for another several blocks.
雷德利奇和马丁知道，公民用突击步枪向 300 米外的目标开火通常会错过预期目标，而且他们的子弹通常会在另外两到三个街区内致命，如果击中头部或躯干另外几个街区也会致命。
Martin knows that citizens who follow his advice in ammunition will overwhelmingly miss their intended targets and spray stray rounds that “chew right through” the walls that black and Latino mothers are desperately hoping will protect their children from the supremacists’ murderous war against America and Americans.
马丁知道，听从他的弹药建议的公民绝大多数会错过他们的预定目标，并喷射出“咬穿”墙壁的流弹，黑人和拉丁裔母亲迫切希望这堵墙能够保护她们的孩子免受至上主义者针对美国和美国人的残酷战争的伤害。
This is madness.
这太疯狂了。
The obvious madness of Trump, Redlich, and Martin must not blind us to the madness of Democratic elected officials who are enraged that Beto has called out the madness and demanded that we abandon stupid, indefensible policies.
特朗普、雷德利奇和马丁明显的疯狂，我们绝不能忽视民主党民选官员的疯狂，他们对贝托公开指出这些疯狂行为感到愤怒，并要求我们放弃愚蠢、站不住脚的政策。