At the local pistol range today there was about six shooters.
Called the range cold, four people walked out to their targets.
Looked over and one guy went back to the bench, picked his pistol up, and prepared to fire in a two-hand hold with the pistol fully pointed down-range.
We yelled at him and he woke up, put the pistol down, and mentioned that he was hard of hearing...
Hard of hearing? How about hard of seeing. His target was located two lanes down from one of the guys out there looking at his target. In other words, he HAD to be in the guy's field of view. Man, that was a scary one and brings up a larger question, one that's harder to answer. That is, at what point do you not allow people to shoot due to them being a danger to others? I've seen this debated before about it being a right to bear arms, but what if you can't be trusted with them?
That could have turned out much, much worse. I don't dare tell my wife about this one...
Called the range cold, four people walked out to their targets.
Looked over and one guy went back to the bench, picked his pistol up, and prepared to fire in a two-hand hold with the pistol fully pointed down-range.
We yelled at him and he woke up, put the pistol down, and mentioned that he was hard of hearing...
Hard of hearing? How about hard of seeing. His target was located two lanes down from one of the guys out there looking at his target. In other words, he HAD to be in the guy's field of view. Man, that was a scary one and brings up a larger question, one that's harder to answer. That is, at what point do you not allow people to shoot due to them being a danger to others? I've seen this debated before about it being a right to bear arms, but what if you can't be trusted with them?
That could have turned out much, much worse. I don't dare tell my wife about this one...