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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 28 minutes ago

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.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This was texas, why didn't the good guys with guns fire back.

[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

They did.

Fuck that coach! /s

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There’s one near an elementary school in our fucking town.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 12 hours ago

There’s one near an elementary school in our fucking town.

[–] lack@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago

Sounds like they were playing at Charlie Kirk memorial field

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Same people who build summer camps for children in a known active flood plain.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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/

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Foresight is leftist, comrade.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everybody born in the land of the free (TM) ©️* knows this is no place for a ball park, but instead it's perfect for a school yard.

*Conditions apply

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 24 minutes ago

Patent Pending

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 72 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There isn't even an actual gun range; just an empty field people are known shoot guns at. And the outrage seems misplaced that the baseball diamond should be shutdown instead of shutting down dipshits firing guns in the field next to it.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 26 minutes ago

Yeah, which amendment protects the right to BASEBALL?

HAH! Got you there, Commie! Guns win AGAIN!

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you're shooting a gun you are responsible for where the bullets end up.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 25 minutes ago

Unless you're Dick Cheney, and then the guy who caught the buckshot in his face will apologize for getting his face in the way of your shotgun.

[–] propofool@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Listed in maps as a shooting range... For the Katy police department...

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 24 minutes ago

Police training drills are getting too realistic.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 20 hours ago

Fuck The Police!

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Shooting is America's real pastime after all.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

I mean I have to give them this one, have you seen a game of baseball?

[–] josefo@leminal.space 23 points 1 day ago

What a fucked up backwards country

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 144 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People in a field shoot without reguard to what's in the direction of the bullets they are firing. Kids flee, a coach is shot and someone thought they should blame the baseball field builders lol. Mate if you fire a gun and there is any reasonable belief that bullet can strike something other than your target, you should be charged with shooting at that object.

To me that means attempting to kill that coach/kids.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 104 points 1 day ago (30 children)

If you fire a gun, you are 100% responsible for the bullet, full stop.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 22 minutes ago

Not if you are a MAGA, where have you been? There are no consequences for MAGAs.

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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

OH Texas. That explains it.

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