very sad
it happens from time to time but accident happen
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2606053/Boy-age-5-is-killed-by-air-rifle.html
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It is something that you would never get over.
On a side note, this is just one more reason to never close the off eye when shooting. Just like driving a car, you need all of your full field, including side vision. Not saying that this is what happened here, but it can be dangerous. Not to mention killing your depth perception. It has been the cause of many cased of frindly fire accidents in combat.
Mike
having heard more on the news, yes the last post seams to be correct.
Adult shooter looking to take out a bire and the child ran across the line of sight.
I agree with another post here about people, childeren dying in car crashes etc.
When i was 14 a close friend was stabbed in the heart when crossing the road. nothing more to it then that. the bloke comming the other way stabbed him in the heart and he died on the spot. he then stabbed another boy in the lung who tried to pick up my friend, he lived but has 1/2 a lung missing.
I nearly copped it from bacterial meningitis in march last year (that bug hurts like hell) blood tests put me so far into the infection i should have been dead on arrival at the hospital.
It has to be so much worse when its a family member not paying enough attetion and pulling the triger and shooting a grandchild or child.
test
it’s been said, many times, many places, but occurences like that give anti’s more fuel to feed their fire…
tragic, indeed. 🙁
Yes, it is truly sad. It’s sad anytime some one loses a child. Accident or disease, or any other way. However these are just about always taken out of context. Not to be-little the families loss what so ever, but at the same time. how many children died in automobile accidents today because some was too busy texting or dialing a phone number to look at the road. Yet no strong public out cry.
We are always in the spot light. We have to make doubly sure that we DON’T Screw up! All the time. Every day. It is our only hope of keeping any type of shooting sports alive.
I grew up with guns. Had my own by the time I was 6. A lot of my friends did as well. In our society, in the south back then, we were taught gun handling and gun safety. This most recent accident was in a country where guns are just about taboo. So very little is taught as second nature. The adults them selves don’t know much about it.
This is what happens when the society is afraid of or forbidden to become intimately familiar with a given tool.
And that is exactly what a Gun is. A tool. Nothing more. Nothing less.
You wouldn’t want some building your house that had never used a hammer, nor would you want some one working on your car that had never used a wrench (Spanner). Yes proper education and traning is the answer. Yet many in the government have tried to bann this. And in the UK they have very well succeeded!
Igornance is bliss! Head inthe sand kind of thing.
Mike
YOU’LL PUT YOUR EYE OUT WITH THAT THING.
but really though. truly tragic.
That really does suck. Poor little sod. 😥
Who the FUCK let kids play with an air rifle un-supervised ??
They should be publicly whipped.
I got a Red Ryder at 6 or 7 and for the most part I was very safe with it. By 10 I had graduated to a Benjamin rifle and was absolutely deadly on critters with it. I always shot alone or with friends my age, and by then I was the one teaching others safe handling.
It’s unfortunate, but it probably happened because no one was ever serious about teaching the kids safety. Most importantly, treat every gun as if it’s ready to go off. It eliminates 99% of accidents.
it is not the age but maturity i got my first air rifle around 10, 11 and was able to use it un supervised. never had any problems.
Very sad.
But they were letting the kids (12, 10 and 5) play with an air rifle !! No adult supervision !!!
It’s stupid shat like that will make air rifles illegal.
R. I. P.
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i wondered what caliber it was…and how close the boy was shot?…
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Just exactly what I was thinking knife
The other eye needs to monitor whats going on on the sidelines.
Tragic story to say the least.
SAW