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[–] monogram@feddit.nl 3 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond

what an American sentence

[–] elleplaster@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

I knew it was in Texas, I just knew it.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] shai_hulud@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

They did.

Fuck that coach! /s

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 points 53 minutes ago

Yeah, I mean I'm all for the concept, but you simply can't have an elementary school in a town like that smh...

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] lack@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day 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 3 hours 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 3 hours 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 2 hours ago

Patent Pending

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 76 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 2 hours ago

Yeah, which amendment protects the right to BASEBALL?

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

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours 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 4 points 2 hours ago

Police training drills are getting too realistic.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 22 hours ago

Fuck The Police!

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

Shooting is America's real pastime after all.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

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

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