Sweating bullets

Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | May 24, 2009 | Denise Malan

[SwinneySwitch]

When did they “fire a gun onto another’s property”?

[Dead Corpse]

Dissent all you want, just don't pretend to be on the side of individual freedom, Rights, or responsibilities.

Do try to argue like an adult instead of a two year old though.

[ctdonath2]

A stray shot with a high enough trajectory could sail over this wall and into the neighbor's house or yard. It's possible.

Only if the "neighbor" is a mile or so away.

You need to brush up on your ballistics.

[Still Thinking]

Sparkey Osborn, a former construction worker who suffers from chronic back pain and migraine headaches, likes to relax on his back patio in one of the few comfortable chairs he can find. But the shooting makes him anxious and forces him inside.

Well, get psychological treatment or stop being a wuss. Why are his issues his neighbors' problem? Not that I'm advocating being bad neighbors, but he shouldn't shift responsibility for his issues to them. That's HIM being a good neighbor.

[SiGeek]

A stray shot with a high enough trajectory could sail over this wall and into the neighbor's house or yard. It's possible. Neighbors should not be placed at any risk from the shooting, however slight.

Right -- if they just have a berm and haven't covered the "blue skip gap", they are still endangering folks if a round goes over the berm (shooter mentioned in the article serving 8 years for manslaughter for killing a kid on a trampoline 1/3 mile downrange)

Design Criteria for Shooting Ranges

Baffles, Berms and Backstops

I'm a gun and 2nd amendment lover but I wouldn't want to live next to a 1 acre outdoor gun range, or downrange from a poorly constructed one

[subterfuge]

It’s like cigarettes - why should I have to move b/c some doofus lights up next to me and I have to smell his death cloud?

Uh, because the "doofus" was there before you?

[luvbach1]

Agree with your post #92, almost nobody is shot by target shooters. Operative word: almost.

[Puppage]

Just biting off chickens’ heads

Actually, it was a bat.

[Dead Corpse]

In this case, there are clear fields downrange beyond the berms.

Let's argue apples to apples and leave the "what if's" to the DUmmies.

[ctdonath2]

Simple & cool solution: http://www.advancedarmament.com

[Dead Corpse]

Almost no one is killed by chainsaws. Operative word: almost.

Better go after anyone with a chainsaw next. Especially if they are running it in your subdivision.

[Puppage]

Noise doesn’t do any damage? Really? I guess I’ll have to let those Iraq war vets with the blown-out eardrums of that.

Wow, you really are amazingly stupid.

I'll second that!

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“When we first moved there, we didn’t realize the dirt pile across the street from us was a shooting berm,”

Caveat emptor! Nuff said.

Sort of like people moving next to an airport; then complaining about the noise!

[Dead Corpse]

Illegal here in the People’s Republik of Minnesota. But yeah, it would be nice.

[ctdonath2]

I suppose cars should be banned from the neighborhood as well, no?

[HammerT]

The real issue is ensuring that the shooter has taken adequate steps to prevent my property becoming his impact area (or his property becoming my impact area) before somebody gets killed.

I think everyone would agree that it's incumbent on the shooter – or what ever they happen to be doing – to assured that he (or she) isn't endangering others

Parenthetically, I have heard of places where they want to change the distance you have to be from 300' to 500' from neighboring properties to restrict how many people can practice in and area, simply because they don't like the noise.

In that case, it's not really an issue of safety so much as that people would like to control what you do with your property.

Part of the issue is that if and when the government steps in, that won't be that last that will be heard on the subject.

Once people feel the intoxicating drug of controlling others, they never know when to stop, 500' becomes 1000', 1000' becomes 2,000, etc.

[luvbach1]

Only if the "neighbor" is a mile or so away. You need to brush up on your ballistics.

I deliberately didn't state distance so my statement is correct as it stands.

[Beagle8U]

Your chicken little standards would outlaw almost all hunting and shooting. Do you understand that?

A 22 rimfire will travel about 2 miles and a deer rifle 5 + miles.

[green iguana]

tomorrow it’ll be Incandescent light bulbs...

Did you miss that one? They're gone in 2012.

[Puppage]

neighbours

Now there's the King's English for ya.