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And that’s basically it!
I knew it was in Texas, I just knew it.
Years ago, 90s or before, they were having a big pro golf tournament in my city. One of the players went to a local Walmart, and just before they entered the store, they were shot and badly injured.
After a LOT of investigation (they'll do that for famous people, not the rest of us), they discovered that a couple of guys were target shooting in the woods next to the Walmart, and one of their bullets had cleared every tree, branch, and impediment between them and Walmart, a long distance away. I seem to remember that they were nearly a mile away.
They were so far away that even when they saw the story of the shooting on TV, it didn't occur to them that they could be responsible, because they were so far away.
I'm in Little Rock, AR and on holidays or special occasions, people just go fire guns off into the air from their doorsteps or back yards. I have a (well off) neighbor who has admitted to opening a window and firing some rounds off with her boyfriend.
When you tell them "You know, some of those bullets come down and kill people, including children lying in their beds" they get real pissy.
I know of that happening, too. A few years ago, a guy near here was killed by a bullet on New Years Eve. After an investigation, they determined that it came from the sky, from some moron firing his gun on New Years Eve.
Mythbusters did a piece on the lethality of shooting guns into the air. If you shoot it straight up, and it falls straight down, air friction will reduce it's terminal velocity, make it tumble, and while it would hurt you, it probably wouldn't kill you.
The problem is that it is nearly impossible to fire it straight up. It is almost always going to be in some sort of arc, so it is never really in a position for terminal velocity, friction, and tumbling to mitigate its lethality. So it just travels normally, and eventually hits someone.
Thanks I was kinda wondering exactly this.
Sounds like they were playing at Charlie Kirk memorial field
Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond
what an American sentence
There’s one near an elementary school in our fucking town.
Your what?
Yeah, I mean I'm all for the concept, but you simply can't have an elementary school in a town like that smh...
Yeah well maybe not if they are all just fucking.
This was texas, why didn't the good guys with guns fire back.
They did.
Fuck that coach! /s
Same people who build summer camps for children in a known active flood plain.
Or a daycare next to a four lane stroad, with the playground on the side that faces the road.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11407598/child-care-richmond-hill-vehicle/
Foresight is leftist, comrade.
You might be safer since at least gun ranges try to keep things contained. If this is really just a bunch of yahoos blasting away “in the woods”, the only way to prevent it is to address gun “culture” and availability.
Starting with criminal charges. I haven’t seen an update but hopefully the shooters were arrested and face charges. And no, claiming an accident shouldnt be an excuse when there is reckless disregard for human lives
meanwhile in switzerland:
If you drive through the municipality of Erlenbach im Simmental in Switzerland, along the main road, you’ll pass right underneath a shooting range with bullets whizzing over your head.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/11/this-shooting-range-in-switzerland-has.html
Funny comparison, but very tonedeaf. The lack of gun legislation here causes thousands of children's deaths every year. It's the leading cause of death for kids, beating out suicide and cancer.
Yes, the article humorously highlights the problem, but it doesn't make awful, unfair comparisons to places where the problem doesn't exist.
Be better, please.
One could also say that Switzerland is a good example for the requirements of safe gun ownership:
Free healthcare, state controlled gun ranges and gun education, mental healthcare.
Better.
Capitalism builds ballparks next to gun ranges.
There’s one near an elementary school in our fucking town.