Boy wounded by unseen assailant with a pellet gun

[TarpleyG]

This was a major news story on the local "if it bleeds, it leads" station yesterday and this morning. Do you have any idea how many BBs or pellets I have taken in my lifetime? Never once been hospitalized for any of them either. Not that I advocate going around randomly shooting folks with a pellet gun, but grow a pair. Suck it up. It ain't that big a deal.

GT

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Posted on Wed, Mar. 31, 2004

Boy wounded by unseen assailant with a pellet gun

BY LUISA YANEZ

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A 3-year-old boy was apparently shot in the arm by a BB gun Wednesday morning while walking south along the street with his mother, Miami-Dade police said.

The incident occurred about 10:45 a.m. along 41st Street and Southwest 111th Avenue, as mother and son walked hand in hand, police said.

The mother said she heard a sound coming from the roadway, then her son grabbed his arm. She found a round hole in his skin and realized he had been shot.

''We're not sure yet what happened, but we believe the boy was shot with a BB,'' said Joey Giordano, a police spokesman.

The wound is not life threatening. The boy was transported to Baptist Hospital.

Police said they canvassed the area but did not find the shooter.

 

[PATH]

Puh-leeezzze! Some kid probably let one go when he should not have. Granted one could get hurt but it is not "big" news. Sounds like the kid got an ouchie boo-boo! Watch the press play this one up!

Ban BB guns for the sake of the children!

 

[harpethriver]

While this does sound like at best an over-reaction, especially since they initially didn't know for sure if this was a BB, I take issue with your perceived ability to handle a round from a pellet gun. I've got an RWS model 48 in .22 calibre that I guarantee could destroy your "pair."

 

[PATH]

Been shot accidentally by BB guns in the past. (Note not pellets).
Still got em'.

 

[artherd]

This was a major news story on the local "if it bleeds, it leads" station yesterday and this morning. Do you have any idea how many BBs or pellets I have taken in my lifetime? Never once been hospitalized for any of them either. Not that I advocate going around randomly shooting folks with a pellet gun, but grow a pair. Suck it up. It ain't that big a deal.

I have a .22cal pellet gun that will shoot CLEAN THROUGH a piece of 3/4" 11ply void-free baltic birtch plywood. At 50 yards. And kick up dust on the other side.

Wanna see how big a 'pair' you've got?

I am sure that as a *3 year old* you took more than that, right?

At the right angle, with the right shot, I fully belive a shot with a high powered BB gun could prove fatal. Especially to a 3 year old kid.



Not that it's really worth printing, other than to scare people into confiscation, I agree with you there.

But to laugh off air guns as not dangerous is outrageous fallicy.