As a step-parent of a 38 year old who was shot in the head with a pellet gun when he was 7 and is paying the price because he is brain-damaged and can’t live a normal life, I say the police had no choice.
“As a step-parent of a 38 year old who was shot in the head with a pellet gun when he was 7 and is paying the price because he is brain-damaged and can’t live a normal life, I say the police had no choice.”
I have a pellet rifle I use to kill those damn starlings that won’t stay off my suet feeders. Hate those birds! Anyhow...yeah...even at 20+ feet away that pellet knocks the bird off the feeder and makes it bleed pretty much for a bird I suppose.
Pellet gun or not, seriously that kid could have at least put someone’s eye out...or shoot them in the temple and then what???!!!
I am so, so very sorry for you and your family.
That being said, I appreciate your post as there are some posters who feel that the pellet gun DIDN’T REPRESENT THE THREAT THAT ENDED THE YOUNG MAN’S LIFE.
I thank you for your post. I am sure the policemen’s familys would also appreciate you letting people know the pellet gun isn’t a harmless toy- WHICH SOME POSTERS OBVIOUSLY THINK.
“As a step-parent of a 38 year old who was shot in the head with a pellet gun when he was 7 and is paying the price because he is brain-damaged and can’t live a normal life, I say the police had no choice.”
Yep, I use a similar CO2 pistol to shoot squirrels out of my tree. The .177 pellet will go right through a squirrel if I don’t aim at the skull.
A headshot to a child would lodge the pelled somewhere in the middle of the brain.
They are not remotely toys.