It’s a safe place for special snowflakes who can’t hanfle hearing the real stats about guns.
A mother accidentally shoots her 5 year old child while shooting at a dog across the street:
A father is charged after driving his 10 yo son around to do drive by paintball shootings into a crowd–and one of the crowd shot back injuring the boy:
And the fairly common case of where a deer hunter can’t distinguish a deer from another hunter:
Florida…
“So the deputies in the Deltona area go out looking for this 12-year-old and this 14-year-old because the 12-year-old is insulin-dependent and the 12-year-old, if he doesn’t get his medication within four hours, it’s going to be a critical medical emergency,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said.
“The 14-year-old comes out of the garage with a pump shotgun, levels it at deputies and despite warnings to drop it, she walked back into the garage, she comes back a second time, and that’s when deputies opened fire after taking multiple rounds,” Chitwood said.
The girl was shot in the chest and in the arm. According to Chitwood, she was fighting for her life, but she was later listed in stable condition.
“My deputies showed more restraint than I’m showing right now because I am furious that we could be burying somebody tonight. They took multiple multiple rounds… And I know for a fact one banana clip was empty from the AK-47. I know from the radio transmissions that a 12-year-old opened fire on us. I know that the 14-year-old opened fire on us with a shotgun and then walked out and threatened one of my sergeants and told him she was going to kill him. And we didn’t returned [sic] fire. But after she came out of the garage, hey, there was nothing left that we could do. We had to do we had to do,” Chitwood said.
Because the shot hunter wasn’t wearing blaze orange. I have limited sympathy for idiots, although the shooter should of course identified his target.
The kids must have been master safecrackers, as obviously a responsible gun owner would have their guns secured in a gun safe while they are away, right?
Whenever I’ve seen people doing hunting shows or talking about hunting, it’s always the idea of getting the deer in your sights, then carefully firing in order to try for one hit one kill. If you just wound it, then it runs away and dies miles away.
So, it would seem to me that if someone is actually hunting deer, and not just shooting at deer, they would realize that what they are aiming at is not a deer at all before they fired.
Though if I were out in deer hunting areas, I would certainly be wearing some pretty distinctive colors. Apparently there are idiots out there who are not hunting deer, just shooting at them.
“You just stand there looking cute
and when something moves, you shoot” (Tom Lehrer of course)
There is so much that is sad in that story and frankly I have to admit that the police appear to have done everything possible to de-escalate the situation before shooting back. Two kids in the Florida foster system with a history of behavioral issues (and one with medical issues) - you just know there’s a world of misery that happened before it all came to a head here.
The “stupid gun news” is, as noted, that the kids were able to easily grab and use various firearms, which suggests that the guns and ammo were readily available. I get that it wasn’t their home but still, one wonders where they were stored.
Additionally, it is often important to note the sex of the animal you’re attempting to kill (antlered season).
Welcome to the schizoid world of hunting, where they say “Orange for Safety!”…then go out looking like this:
hunter camouflage - Bing images
Schizoid hunter: “This is enough orange, right?”
Wow. I was hoping that was going to be pictures of bow-hunters (who need to get fairly close so presumably have need to actually blend in), but nope - some of those idiots have camo on their guns that matches their outfits.
Any of those folks get shot, no sympathy at all. Someone who carefully IDs their target and misses is never going to know one of those clowns is down range of them.
The reversible-It allows you to leave the house letting your family think you are one safety-minded dude, then reverse it so your hunting buddies won’t think you are a wimp.
Does camo actually help with deer at all?
Potentially it does, because it breaks up your pattern. Which raises an interesting question: why are tigers orange? They have a nice pattern to break up their outline, so you’d think they want to camoflauge, but their fur is bright orange. Why not green?
The answer is, mammals can only make pigments in a few colors, so you get white or black fur, brown and tan, and red and orange. And luckily enough, deer cant see red or orange. It looks green to them. So an orange and stripes tiger is totally camoflauged in green foliage when looked at by a deer.
Which means that hunters could make use of this feature of the human eye by wearing camoflauged clothing which is bright orange broken up by black. They’d be just as hidden from deer, but would stand out to other humans. But they’d look silly, and I suspect that looking “badass” is the real reason hunters wear camo.
Nothing more badass than sporting a gaping chest wound.
But your idea seems to make sense, orange and black “camo” that would hide you from the deer, but not from other hunters.
“OMG! I thought he was a tiger!!”
A tiger? In Africa?
Illegal immigration is a real problem…
The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house maarten or the plummer may seek warmer climes in winter, but these are not strangers to our land!