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Errant Bullet Travels 1.5 Miles, Kills Amish Girl
WLWT ^ | 12:01 pm EST December 20, 2011 | WLWT

Posted on 12/20/2011 9:38:28 AM PST by TSgt

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1 posted on 12/20/2011 9:38:30 AM PST by TSgt
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I just read about tho in our local paper.It s very sad but I am relieved to hear it was an accident and not someone targeting a buggy like thy wondered at first.


2 posted on 12/20/2011 9:40:28 AM PST by chris_bdba
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Terrible.


3 posted on 12/20/2011 9:41:09 AM PST by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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When I read about this this morning they hadn’t determined the source of the projectile.


4 posted on 12/20/2011 9:41:18 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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This is stupid on the part of the shooter. Firing a weapon without having a clue where that projectile is going is inexcusable to me.


5 posted on 12/20/2011 9:41:49 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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Let’s try that again....I just read about this in our local paper.It is very sad but I am relieved to hear it was an accident and not someone targeting a buggy like they wondered about at first.


6 posted on 12/20/2011 9:41:59 AM PST by chris_bdba
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Sad, and stupid.

As an aside, I never thought of muzzle loaders as being able to fire that far.


7 posted on 12/20/2011 9:43:34 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Emmett McCarthy

The Arabs do it all the time in the Middle East. That’s how they celebrate.


8 posted on 12/20/2011 9:44:38 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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sorry, not buying it.

There’s no way to know the shot came from THAT firearm.


9 posted on 12/20/2011 9:45:14 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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Basic rule of firearms safety. Know where the damn round is going.


10 posted on 12/20/2011 9:46:16 AM PST by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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This MORON ought to be barred from ever owning another firearm. He VIOLATED one of the cardinal rules by firing into the air with NO idea where the projectile would land. Geezz...Tragic!


11 posted on 12/20/2011 9:46:21 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Obozo deserves another term: IN LEAVENWORTH. 25 to life sounds about right!)
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Idiot should be charged with manslaughter.
12 posted on 12/20/2011 9:46:45 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: Emmett McCarthy

Make sure of your backstop. Some guy in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn was shooting at sharks, using the Belt Parkway as a backstop and the inevitable happened.

I remember seeing a story on City Confidential (iirc) where a young man was killed by a shot “out of nowhere”. Turned out some idiot was playing Rambo at a nearby shooting range and fire wildly over the backstop and killed the poor guy.

BTW, I am not sure that it was an accident, he might have been tempted to see if he could hit a moving target a mile and a half away. Who in the Hell “cleans” a gun by firing it?


13 posted on 12/20/2011 9:47:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"As an aside, I never thought of muzzle loaders as being able to fire that far."

She'd have probably been safer if he had been aiming at her ...

14 posted on 12/20/2011 9:47:33 AM PST by BlueLancer (Secede?! Y'all better just be thankful we don't invade ...)
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To: mamelukesabre

Some of those discarding sabot loads will go a long,long way.


15 posted on 12/20/2011 9:50:17 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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They didn’t charge him because they expect him to take the fall.

And TWA Flight 800 was an explosion (of convenience)


16 posted on 12/20/2011 9:50:30 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Why would you try to clean it while it’s loaded? I think the author of this article knows little about how to clean a gun. Something is amiss here. This sad story makes little sense. Think of all of the mathetmatical possibilities that would have to coincide for this tragedy to occur.


17 posted on 12/20/2011 9:51:03 AM PST by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Basic rule of firearm safety: Be sure of your target and your back-stop.
18 posted on 12/20/2011 9:51:12 AM PST by Thane_Banquo
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To: TSgt
I own a couple of black powder rifles, and there is NO way that they have the capability of shooting a mile and a half (unless you're in an airplane and shooting straight down). I also have a couple of high powered magnum hunting rifles (a .264 Winchester and a .300 Weatherby) which are really dropping a lot (about 3 feet) out at 600 yards. A mile and a half equals about 2640 yards, so unless you're aiming up at a 45 degree angle and shooting from the edge of a tall cliff there's no way you can come close to shooting a projectile that far. Even if you granted that this was not an impossibility, the projectile would not have enough kinetic energy left to penetrate the skin at that distance.

If I was the local constabulary I'd be seriously looking into it.

As an aside, I've seen a lot of Amish people over the years, but have not ever seen a buggy being driven by one of their females....just sayin'.

19 posted on 12/20/2011 9:51:16 AM PST by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: mamelukesabre
There’s no way to know the shot came from THAT firearm.

Want to think that one through again?

20 posted on 12/20/2011 9:51:33 AM PST by null and void (Day 1064 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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