Texas coach injured by ‘recreational’ gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond
www.independent.co.uk
Video footage showed players looking around in confusion as the barrage intensified, then scattering for cover
  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 days ago

    Everybody born in the land of the free ™ ©️* knows this is no place for a ball park, but instead it’s perfect for a school yard.

    *Conditions apply

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      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.

      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        4 days ago

        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?

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days 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

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond

    what an American sentence

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    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.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      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.todayEnglish
        5·
        2 days 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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    79·
    3 days ago

    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.