Talk:Pistol
From Academic Kids
Shakespeare used "pistol" in a sense comparable to our modern "live wire". Thus one recalls that Falstaff was a "pistol". That is, Falstaff was a creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises. This sense of "pistol" seems to have all but disappeared from modern English; one is likely to find such only in those special glossaries compiled as study aids for students of English literature.
Isn't there a character in Shakespeare's Henry V called Pistol?
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gunfight statistics
- Most policemen fight less than two such fights in a thirty-year career, and most police fire three bullets or less per gun fight.
Anybody got a citation for this statistic, and, more important, what police does it apply to? Here in Australia, if a policeman fires a weapon (outside of training, of course) it makes the statewide news. --Robert Merkel 08:48, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
