...it may kill someone nontheless. A man in San Diego is alleged to have sent a group text message, saying: "I'm going hobo hunting with a pellet gun". A friend who reportedy was included among the recipiants allegedly joined him and drove him to an area frequented by homeless folks.
Sometime after that, San Diego police reportedly found a woman whom it turned out had been shot multiple times by a pellet gun. She was brought to a hospital and died therein three days later; one of the pellets reportedly had pierced her aorta.
The two young men, one reportedly 18 and the other 19, were arrested and charged in her death. More at the source.
Sometimes the warnings given to us by our moms are best taken as serious business full of wisdom and if ot heeding that then it would be wise to heed morality and the law. Why anyone would do something as pathetic as hunting anyone at all, and if my guess is correct that they did it for fun, is beyond my comprehension except to imagine they are evil twisted despicable misfits who desrve the death penalty, or life in prison at the very least, if convicted as I see it.
My other guess is that they will be crying crocodile tears in jail and claiming in court they didn't mean to hurt anyone; yet, hurt someone and do it fatally is allegdly exactly what was done by at least one of them with the other's assistance to some extent.
Truly, our society has degraded to being the modern day Rome in as much as like the once mighty Roman Empire, it has fallen or is in the process of doing so. That is due, in great part, to political blunders of our so called leaders; to a lack of leaders and parents enforcing once accepted laws, rules and moral & social norms, to citizens who like spoiled brats must have everything their way no matter how twisted or perverse and to an invasion of aliens who have little to no interest in preserving what once made the United States of America a great and unified natiion.
All the best,
Glenn B
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In New Jersey, two men were shooting .22 rifles at floating targets. Just more than a mile away was a highway running through a marshy area. A man driving with the window down was struck by a .22 bullet just behind the ear and died.
Police solved the mysterious death by witness reports of a certain area of the marsh being a favorite among shooters.
--from an article in Reader's Digest circa 1975
Also, I remember the operator of a bulldozer died when some kids thought it funny to shoot at him with their pellet guns.
Modern pellet rifles are far more dangerous than the old Daisy Red Ryder BB guns of our youth. Not to be taken lightly.
Maybe a Red Ryder was not all that powerful but deadly air rifles have been around for centuries. Lewis & Clark, it is believed, brought along Girandoni rifles (a 20 shot repeating air rifle) on their expedition across what would later become the western states of the United States of America. I said it is believed it was a Girandoni because it is possible it was instead an air rifle made in America by either Seneca Lukens or his son Isiah and that was the conclusion before some later figured it to be a Girandoni rifle. More on the here: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/lewis-and-clark-air-rifle.html. It is an interesting piece but how they supposedly determined, as it was described in the article, that it was not a Lukens made rifle but was a Girandoni rifle is tenuous at best; there must be more info to have definitively determined it was a Girandoni and that info is not shown in the article. I mean, just because Isiah Lukens was working 15 miles from Philadelphia in the year Lewis bought the rifle does not mean he or his father could have supplied the rifle, even back then, 15 miles was not too far away to do business.
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