‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond
Texas coach injured by ‘recreational’ gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond
cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/34379460
Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond
what an American sentence
I knew it was in Texas, I just knew it.
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
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.
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.
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.
This was texas, why didn't the good guys with guns fire back.
They did.
Fuck that coach! /s
There’s one near an elementary school in our fucking town.
Your what?
Yeah, I mean I'm all for the concept, but you simply can't have an elementary school in a town like that smh...
There’s one near an elementary school in our fucking town.
Sounds like they were playing at Charlie Kirk memorial field
Same people who build summer camps for children in a known active flood plain.
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/
Foresight is leftist, comrade.
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
Patent Pending
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.
Yeah, which amendment protects the right to BASEBALL?
HAH! Got you there, Commie! Guns win AGAIN!
Yeah, if you're shooting a gun you are responsible for where the bullets end up.
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.
Listed in maps as a shooting range... For the Katy police department...
Police training drills are getting too realistic.
Fuck The Police!
Shooting is America's real pastime after all.
I mean I have to give them this one, have you seen a game of baseball?
What a fucked up backwards country
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.
If you fire a gun, you are 100% responsible for the bullet, full stop.
Not if you are a MAGA, where have you been? There are no consequences for MAGAs.
What if you're at a paid indoor range and your bullet goes through the back stop wall because the range cheaped out?
Especially if the bullet doesn't full stop into the target or a barrier behind it.
1oo% true. and yet… who would build a a base ball park right next to a gun range?! not saying they are at fault, but like …really? there must be something i don’t know, like was it an indoor range?
Sounds like they are getting charged
The Waller County Sheriff's Office said it was now pursuing dangerous conduct charges against three people suspected of firing off guns nearby.
OH Texas. That explains it.
Coming at you every mother fucking DAYAYAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who builds a gun range in a way that bullets can escape if shot from appropriate positions?
I am pretty sure this is the gun range and you're supposed to shoot in the direction of the blue arrow. That big mound of earth is where the targets would be and is supposed to catch stray bullets. Something tells me that redneck fuckery was involved.
Found it on Google maps, I think I was right.
It's frankly amazing that this very pertinent information you revealed after the briefest of Google searches isn't included in the "official" reporting.
JFC they were shooting uprange to make this happen
Either fuckery, or a ricochet. My first time shooting tracers was eye-opening to how much bullets bounce around. This guy shooting a 50-cal is hit in his earmuffs after the berm launches the round back at him.
They didn’t, the headline is shit and they shouldn’t have included that quote, because the gunfire came from a property that wasn’t the gun range.
The article says that the people who were shooting weren't on the shooting range property, so it was probably just some morons shooting guns in an unsafe location who and direction who can't be bothered to use the shooting range. Hopefully the range, were they to actually use it as intended, has proper berms and backstops to keep any rounds from going an unsafe direction.
But a Sheriff's Office spokesperson told Houston Public Media that the suspected shooters were actually not on that property during the incident.
The gunshots didn't come from the gun range at all.
Before opening this article... Let me guess? Texas
Update: Yep Texas
In Texas. Of course.
They should just supply every Texan with bulletproof armour and helmets and make it mandatory that they should wear them at all times .... because there is a high likelihood that they might get shot either intentionally or accidentally.
As a non-American, it sounds like this should be the uniform issued at birth or at least when (if?) kids reach school age. I say “if” because vaccines are being outlawed. Technically body armour is just another kind of vaccine though, no?
This is the most 'merican thing I've read all day
My area has a playground built to accommodate disabled children and the adjacent property is a gun range. There are also soccer fields. Imagine children going down the slide and swinging and kicking the ball around all to the sound of not-so-distant gunfire. The 200 meter range even shoots towards the soccer fields.
Americans?
Americans.
meanwhile in switzerland:
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/11/this-shooting-range-in-switzerland-has.html