"Responsible" gun owners acting intelligently ... maybe if the homeowners had guns, they'd feel

[zbdent]

safer ...

http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/bullets-whiz-past-officers-heads-strike-medina-county-homes-1.365592

[Fumesucker]

1. Hold my beer and watch this

[geckosfeet]

2. Alcohol and guns. Not a good mix by anyones standards.

[markbark]

11. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...

Who brought the chips?

[liberal N proud]

3. Saw this on the local news this AM. The shooters thought it was OK because they were...

shooting downhill was commented on the news.

There is no where in this land where you can be safe from bullets! The gun nuts have taken over and we are living in an automated version of the wild wild west.



Here is a link to the video of the local news story: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_medina/Bullets-strike-Montville-homes-narrowly-miss-officers-as-AK-47-target-practice-goes-awry

[freebrew]

5. maybe all we need is an IQ test...

seriously!

[baldguy]

4. Tell me again why I shouldn't know which of my neighbors have guns?

[Squaredeal]

6. Completely legal

In my town, target shooting is legal on one's own property, even if their property line abuts his neighbor's home and for some reason he likes harassing him by shooting off black powder guns next to it. Some residents do not go into their back yards when a neighbor is shooting because of the inherent danger of being inadvertently shot.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Tell us which town is dumb enough to allow the discharge of live rounds within it.

That way we can all avoid living there.

[HereSince1628]

9. In rural areas in the US, town often refers to an admin subdivision of a county

In areas laid out in the Case Western Reserve System, it's a 6 mile x 6mile square area. Sometimes called townships, sometimes referred to as towns (as is true in Wisconsin).

My 'town', Town of Jefferson, in central Jefferson County, WI and the immediately surrounding towns (Farmington, Sullivan, Hebron) all allow hunting and target shooting that complies with other laws and rule. There are state laws, county and township ordinances that limit how close firearm use can occur relative to buildings, roads, and waterways. Exurban subdivisions and enclaves of McMansions are areas where shooting is formally prohibited.

[mike dub]

8. No-backstop is one of the issues here, squaredeal

These yahoos were shooting without a safe backstop. And some towns have ordinances against shooting within town limits (I'm not familiar with the area in this article, so I don't know what their ordinances are).

Where I live (rural/way out in the sticks / Down South), there are *no regs against shooting anytime. You can hear gunfire around our area almost any day. We plink away-- but we have a *safe backstop before doing so.

You can't fix stupid.

[firenewt]

10. Death - The ultimate fix for stupid

Just saying.......................

[zbdent]

12. I've often said (quite a number of times here)

Ignorance is curable ... stupidity is fatal. Stupidity is choosing to remain ignorant ...