Alright, let me reply again, to this, using italics wherever I am quoting others, who have contributed to this actually valuable thread, once any kind of objective discussion happened. You said:
“What frothing rage? Did a comment hit a little close to home?”
Which is a clever little insinuation that clearly the one daring to ask about the elephant in the room is the one who put it there.
I will simply repeat what I said before:
“Let's not assume that simply because I don't share every bit of a point of view that I am the exact opposite. I don't like hitting people with brass, and in my original post I very much stated that I understand some minor frustration.”
I will, as a matter of fact, state again what I said earlier as to clarifying the question, event though I thought I was pretty darned clear:
“What I do not understand is this frothing Range Rage and name calling that seems to be directed at anyone whose gun dares kick brass.”
As for examples of this name calling, or rather clever insinuations, because we don't condone direct name calling here. I will quote a few:
“Or one could just be a selfish jack*** and not care about anybody but one's self...”
“Good lord, a perfect example why some people shouldn't be around guns.”
“Inconsiderate jerks need to bring their dad, mom or wife along to make sure they behave.”
Some people even go on to compare a gun (by design) spitting brass to the following things:
“1. Don't spit your tobacco on my shoes
2. Don't spit your hot brass down my t-shirt“
“You refuse to see the obvious. A lot of people don't like their stuff hit by other people's stuff. Snowballs, empty hulls, cigarette butts, tobacco juice, boogers, gravel from spinning tires, whatever.”
Now, the argument these people are making is that flying brass at a public range is comparable to spitting on someone, littering, spreading other bodily fluids or damaging property via reckless driving.
And I maintain that this is simply not a good argument! Cars, for instance are not designed to throw gravel. Chewing tobacco isn't designed to go on boots, cigarette butts are not designed to go on lawns and frankly there is a massive difference in intent between wiping a booger on someone's stuff and a gun throwing brass by design, furthermore, we have people putting a piece of brass exiting the gun on the same accountability level as a bullet leaving it! People are to account for their guns throwing a (usually) disposable piece of brass the same way as a bullet leaving their gun?! I will quote something here that throws this in very clear light:
“Really? People get upset when a hot casing hits them at the gun range? Do you also get pissed if water gets on you at the pool?”
This quote leads very nicely into the next point here. There have been some very cogent insights here, that I would like to quote as well, which tie in nicely with the public pool comparison:
“The prime offenders are those who show up and promptly indulge themselves with an exhibition of deliberate rudeness in a multitude of ways, sometimes bordering on unsafe.”
And “Being pelted with 30 in quick succession ruins an outing [...]”
Because , again, I quote:
“Being hit by an occasional piece of brass is a recreational hazard [...]”
But:
“The prime offenders are those who show up and promptly indulge themselves with an exhibition of deliberate rudeness in a multitude of ways, sometimes bordering on unsafe.”
This whole scenario relies a lot on a very basic notion here that:
“We all spent our hard earned $$$ to get there and we have a picture perfect idea of how it should go and how other people should react” which needs to be balanced with the fact that “the thing that bothers me is when someone is complaining about it after the fact, when they could have moved to another lane, or asked me to.”
Which leads me to my opinion here, that someone else pointed out so nicely:
“[...] it must be an acceptable reality at any range where semi-automatic weapons are in use.”
So to me it all crystallizes down to the brass not being the actual culprit. Inconsideration, sheer stubborness and lack of communication or civility on both sides is.