John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire is a former Brittish, now American commentator. He has been at the forefront of exposing the cowardace of the 15 Brittish sailors captured by Iran []. Mr. Derbyshire felt that he would have done much better, theoreticly, if put in the same situation.

He also has been one of the commentators brave enought to call out the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre of 2007. He decryed the fact that none of the students:


 * "At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him. Handguns aren't very accurate, even at close range. I shoot mine all the time at the range, and I still can't hit squat. I doubt this guy was any better than I am. And even if hit, a .22 needs to find something important to do real damage—your chances aren't bad." []

Really, all these students had to do was ignore the death screams of their fellow classmates, determine the calliber of the weapons, realize that such a weapon needs to hit a major organ to kill you, unless he is using hollow-points, calculate the time needed to relaod, determine the size of the magazines being used, count the number of shots fired by the rampaging killer, then position themselves to jump him during the few seconds while he reloads, and incapacitate him before he puts a bullett in their head at point balnk range. How hard could it be? John Derbyshire does it on his X-Box all the time!

John's Other Theoretical Acts of Bravery

 * If he was in Vietnam he would've killed, like, 1000 VC.
 * If he had been on the Titanic, he would have cleared the Iceburg.
 * If he had been in Pearl Harbor, he would have shot down all the Japanese planes.
 * If he had been on United 93, he would have overpowered the terrorists and landed the plane safely

==See Also= Nathaniel Blake