What the Heck is Wrong with People?

[MrDig]

I don't know who said it.....

"If you are not outraged, then you are not paying attention"

There is always something going on somewhere that should outrage the average person with a little common sense and some sense of social morals.
I find inconceivable that a person would take a minor to a range and not provide them with Hearing Protection.

 

[tkarter]

I will provide children that learn to shoot hearing protection now. In the past I can't say that I did. Raised my kids and they all shoot and enjoy the sport as well as the hunting sports. They know guns make loud noises.

Did any of the pioneers use hearing protection? The 4 rules were in place in black powder days.


I am not deaf. I hear pretty well actually for all the stupid loud noises which were mostly at work to provide for a family.

Remember one and all that the last guy that was perfect was crucified.

tk

 

[Handgunguy316]

My dad has always had me wear earplugs, if it were at the track or the range (where eyes and ears have ALWAYS been required). If it wasn't for the communication factor, I would wear them while bird hunting. It makes me sick to read what some people have done to turn off potential hunters and shooters because unsafe practices.

 

[ruger_martin_mastermag]

When I was little my dad would tell me if i didnt put on double ear protection he would take away my brand new shotgun. I didnt like it then but now i am happy i followed his rules. Now i have kids woith all new guns and if they get cought without ear protection i will take there gun away and make them work it back. That is the way i was rased and that is the way the think people sould rase there children.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

I find inconceivable that a person would take a minor to a range and not provide them with Hearing Protection.

Hold on just one minute. I grew up in the 50s, my dad was a pioneer handloader, and I spent some time with him at the range.

Hearing protection was unheard of.

Yes, I've got some hearing loss. Dad is near deaf (he'll be 80 next month). (He also spent over 35 years working in a steel mill, if that counts for anything.)

Inconceivable? Maybe in this day and age. Not always.

 

[tkarter]

The 2nd amendment is older than hearing protection.

tk

 

[Bogart]

The 2nd amendment is older than hearing protection.

Yes it is And the guys that wrote it were DEAF when they did so

 

[Regolith]

I shot for years without hearing protection up until recently. About the only time I used it was when I shot center fire rifles.

My hearing is still above normal for people my age (21), but then I didn't have a 12" subwoofer blasting in the back of my car when I was 16 either (some of my friends did, though).

I did start wearing hearing protection recently though, when I bought my first shotgun (previously I had simply used my father's firearms).

 

[spruce_goose]

In my early days of shooting I often times couldn't afford hearing protection... And it is a right, but for all children adults should provide hearing protection, no doubt about that.

What I really, really hate are the morons that just walk out past the line without a word. Glance away from your scope and you see some guy retrieving his target 25 degrees away. Makes me want to and slap them around a bit.

 

[TEDDY]

training

what did you say??????nobody should be with out hearing protection.and eye.
my father and I shot springfields back in the 1930s.then I went in Navy and was AOM3/C so shot 30/50 mg.still no hearing protection.now at 83 my wife has to repeat every thing.I held NRA instructer rating and always corrected bad habits.ex indoor range watching shooter with revolver thru glass partition
fired raised gun over sshoulder we all were looking at barrel and loaded cylinder.I walked in and spoke to shooter.say I said thats not a cap and ball is it.no he said I answered well you know you dont have to shake the caps out.your aim ing the gun at us.rest the gun on the bench after firing.he got the message and wont do it again.if we gun owners do not say anything how are they to learn?
we must do our share of teaching.and to those who supply ear plugs GOOD FOR YOU.-----------:banghead:-----------

 

[Nil]

Last time I shot trap there were a group of 5-6 guys on the thrower next to me. Only 2 of them had the proper eye and ear protection, the rest had nothing. Though that didn't bother me as much as those idiots sweeping me numerous times with their muzzles, often times while loading their shotguns. I don't understand why some people seem to be absolutely devoid of all common sense when it comes to firearms.

 

[Claude Clay]

dont recollect the army issuing hearing protection in the 1970's ( or prior to that)............help me here please

 

[ruger_martin_mastermag]

I am starting to bring extra ear and eye protection to my gun ranges. I have given atleast 20 pair of ear plugs.I encourage people to do the same.b

 

[Logan5]

In the early 1980's, my rifle team got shown a film before every competition season about (belonging to) the Navy where the guy was blowing in asbestos insulation and then steam riveting in steel plates on liberty ships, and went deaf because he wasn't wearing any kind of hearing protection.
It still makes you deaf, but I think we need some new movies.

 

[cnorman18]

say what?

Hearing protection for kids isn't a minor thing.

I was raised to love guns and shooting from the cradle; my dad was a hunter and skeet shooter, and gave me my first .22 when I was 7. But no one thought about ear protection then. I don't think I ever saw a pair of muffs till I was in my late teens or early 20s. Earplugs were around a little before that, but most guys thought that using them made you a sissy.

Now I'm 56, and I have 45% hearing loss in my right ear and somewhat less in my left. My ears ring all the time--ALL the time. You know how it sounds on a summer night in the woods and the crickets are really loud? That's how the inside of my head sounds, only louder. It's most noticeable when the room is quiet, but I can hear it all the time. I can't use a phone with my right ear, and I can't hear a watch alarm (or a lot of ringtones) at all.

And it can't be fixed. Hearing aids won't help tinnitus, as it's called, and there's no real treatment.

If your ears ring, you've suffered permanent damage. Just a little; but permanent is permanent. If you make your ears ring often enough, one day you'll notice that they haven't stopped ringing; and after a while you figure out that they never will.

Don't allow kids to be around shooting without ear protection. Ever. Please. It sucks to have a firebell going in your head, 24-7.

 

[RobMoore]

dont recollect the army issuing hearing protection in the 1970's ( or prior to that)............help me here please

I fixed it for you

dont recollect the army issuing hearing protection in the 1970's ( or prior to that)............help me hear please