Nushif
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Carelessness is a by-product of the Me Generation.
Cause we all know nobody back in the days of your choice was ever careless, right? What's next? Git-off-mah-innernetz?
Carelessness is a by-product of the Me Generation.
Owen Sparks just demonstrated perfectly how civility and a good talk can solve a lot of things.
Yep.Posted by gym: Are you kidding me, the guys wife or either of you could be dead now.
On file? I'm not sure what you think that will accomplish. Probably absolutely nothing, depending upon the jurisdiction.You need to get it on file immediatlly.
Likely so. No one is suggesting that course of action.This will happen again, you didn't fix anything.
Could be, but whether calling the police would yield a different result will depend upon the laws in the jurisdiction, and more.The guy probablly will go on doing exactlly what he was doing, figuring "i just need to shoot a little lower, or put another piece of wood on the backstop.
Good thinking!You can't let this go, imagine if a kid or someone walking by gets hit or killed. You have to live with that.
One more time, if one is in a jurisdiction in which discharging a firearm is unlawful, calling the police is certainly the appropriate thing to do. The OP has pointed out that that is not the case here.The police will take care of the prosecutorial end, so if that's what's stopping you don't worry about it.
Most assuredly.Posted by Nushif: Owen Sparks just demonstrated perfectly how civility and a good talk can solve a lot of things.
Or your dead. It's not smart to confront someone shooting at you if you can avoid it. That's what the police get paid for.
Does anyone not see that the second approach will address the problem far more quickly?
Is it not likely that if the caller were to go the extra mile and offer assistance in changing the set-up, the resultant "fix" would most likely yield more effective risk reduction?
Does anyone really objectively believe that calling the police is the better alternative?
If so, why?
how do you know they were shooting without a proper backstop?
even the op said he thought it was probably a ricochet, so maybe they weren't even firing in their direction. there's a lot of speculatiing going on and the only way to know for sure is go over and talk to them. calling the police is dumb. they either aren't going to do anything or they will possibly overreact to it. the easiest thing is to just talk to them and deal with it like adults. if they dont listen or act like jerks then they obviously dont care and the police should be called
Good.Posted by rellascout: I am not saying that I would call the police...
I am making no assumptions.... but you are making huge assumptions which IMHO you cannot back up.
No, I am not.You are ASSUMING that the shooter will be a reasonable person who shares your concept of safe shooting.
I think you are confusing two things. One can conduct oneself in a risky manner through ignorance and still be quite reasonable. Not everyone knows what a proper backstop is. That does not make anyone unreasonable. It just makes him or her ignorant.A reasonable person is not shooting a .223 round in the proximity of other peoples homes without a proper backstop. PERIOD!
I have not put forth a strawman argument at all; I have simply suggested the best way to deal with an issue involving a neighbor.In your strawman argument you are assuming you are dealing with a civil and reasonable individual.
I have not put forth a strawman argument at all; I have simply suggested the best way to deal with an issue involving a neighbor.
And I did contrast that way with calling the police.
If the shooter was not discharging the firearm unlawfully, I 'm not at all sure just what it is that people who would call the police think that that would do that they could not accomplish more effectively by themselves.
It is not illegal to shoot in the county just so long as the bullets do not land on someone elses property.