http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x466805starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 06:37 PM
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Some ****ing idiot asshole with a rifle just almost blew my son's head off Updated at 11:45 AM
I am pissed as hell. I just heard from my kids, who share an apartment together, that my younger son was sitting on his living room couch when a bullet from a high powered rifle blasted through the window and passed within a foot of his head.
The cops are there now collecting evidence. Apparently it was some asshole on the other side of the parking lot in their apartment complex whose gun went off at random -- and that's all they know so far. But they're freaking out, and I'm mad.
The one thing I do know is that this whole ******* cult of the worship of the sacred right of gun ownership has gone too ****ing far when it starts to threaten *my* kids -- and I am prepared to do anything I can to stop it in its tracks. Human beings should not have to live in fear, and it has got to end.
Your kid isn't anything special.
BobbyBoring Donating Member (376 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Feb-20-11 07:26 PM
Response to Reply #34
73. I didn't either
I'm surprised you are even calm enough to share this with your brothers and sisters here. I'm so glad your sons OK.
Years ago, I was a passenger in a car on the Annacostia Freeway in DC. I heard a loud bang and ducked for what ever reason. When I looked up, there was a groove across the windshield where what looked to be maybe a 30 30 round skimmed across it.
SOME IDIOT WAS SHOOTING AT CARS. Had we been going a 1/2 MPH faster, it would have hit me in the head.
We need gun control folks. Every day, we head closer to the wild wild west. There are many that want a return to 10th century America but I am not among them.
Just who is this newbie?
So many lies in such a short posting.
First off, the bullet would have penetrated the windshield. even a glancing hit. At the moment of impact, in order for the bullet to glance off of the windshield, the vehicle would need to be stopped. Since both the bullet and vehicle are in motion, the bullet would have enter the cabin.
How does he know it's a .30-30? Why not a .30-06 or a .308?
Then the part about hearing a band and then ducking. The DUmmy is a liar.
Note to future bouncy boasters. If you hear a gun shot, you can't duck out of its path. The bullet travel faster than the sound.
In the case of the boring one, it appears he is just another liar.
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Feb-20-11 06:43 PM
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12. It has to hit personal before it comes home.

jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 07:36 PM
Response to Reply #81
86. I have a right to be free of guns in my workplace and public places
authoritarians want to restrict that
yup
No you don't.
AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 09:14 PM
Response to Reply #81
142. that Bill of Rights sure is a problem..
Edited on Sun Feb-20-11 09:15 PM by AlbertCat
Nonsense. It clearly states you can have a flintlock, in order to form a well regulated militia. Period.
I have no problem with that.
Other than that, however, we are gonna need some laws.
That passage is not in my version. I must have the Cliff Note's edition.
Brilliantrocket (145 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 07:07 PM
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39. Everytime someone abuses the second amendment people propose for it to be limited.
Edited on Sun Feb-20-11 08:03 PM by Brilliantrocket
Imagine if we did that every time someone abused the first. Someone got killed because of conservative talk show hosts? DOWN WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Makes a lot of sense right? For those who read me saying that this act is freedom of speech, I'm not saying that. I was trying to make an analogy to the fact that the second amendment gets limited every time someone abuses it.
How was lunch?
AlabamaLibrul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Feb-20-11 07:45 PM
Response to Reply #39
93. IBTT

bongbong Donating Member (842 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 10:14 PM
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165. 2nd Amendment?
The 2nd Amendment is about state militias, not about laissez-faire gun ownership.
Take another hit on the bong.
safeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Feb-20-11 09:43 PM
Response to Reply #46
154. I talked to an older man
a few years ago that had a cast on his left hand. I asked about it and he told me shot himself in the hand while cleaning his handgun. No big deal, except he then went on to tell me he has been a NRA safety instructor for 36 years.
Goes to show, no matter how much safety training anyone has, guns are still very dangerous even in the hands of trained experts.
They put a cast on a gunshot wound!!
mediator (131 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 07:19 PM
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60. Where did this happen?
The laws that apply to incidents like this are pretty inconsistent from state to state.
This is the second time you've asked this. Get a clue. He's not going to give out any details to help you prove him to be a liar.
nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Feb-20-11 08:10 PM
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105. Hugs, and it never ceases to amaze me
that people do not understand the danger of these toys
mediator (131 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 08:18 PM
Response to Reply #105
108. Thinking of them as toys is a significant contribution to their misuse.
It is amazing there are not -more- incidents like this one, given the reluctance of so many to provide commonsense instruction on proper operation and safety.
nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Feb-20-11 08:23 PM
Response to Reply #108
112. Forgive me, but my refering to them as toys
is more out of having been downrange from them in actual shootouts. It is more of a self defense mechanism.
I KNOW the basic safety rules with them... and am perfectly aware of what they do.
Y'All should treat Nadin with more respect. After all, she's been in a firefight.
mediator (131 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-20-11 08:28 PM
Response to Reply #112
113. Well, being downrange from a paintball enemy isn't quite what I'd call risky.

nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Feb-20-11 08:34 PM
Response to Reply #113
117. Well that paint ball was an AK-47 once
another time a few AR-15s
The 50 cal Browning was loud and fun, as well as the 20 mm cannon.
Oh and yes, those were the days, fun indeed.
:rolleyes: indeed
You're so full of shit.