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In reply to the discussion: Men used AR-style rifles to kill protected wild burros in Mojave Desert, federal prosecutors say [View all]PatSeg
(48,267 posts)Target practice perhaps, but pretty soon that isn't satisfying enough. Throw in some booze and the possibilities expand.
I remember a guy in Texas who had too much to drink and came out of his trailer to shoot at a stray dog that had been sniffing around his female dog. It was a trailer park full of children! At least one bullet hit a trailer. The cops came and he got a slap in the wrist. He easily could have killed someone and being Texas, there was a possibility that he might not have gone to jail.
This was many years ago and I remember how nervous I was watching kids with rifles in the field shooting at some kind of small animals. I often wondered what if they got tired of varmints and decided to aim at a human instead. Meanwhile, we were quite sure that our next door neighbor shot one of the dogs my husband had adopted. We heard a gun go off and never saw the dog again. One of our female dog's puppies just up and disappeared too.