If that is true, it's probably a good reason for them not to have guns. As you say, where do the bullets go? In to the neighbors' house, perhaps...
So yes, the lack of accuracy, especially by the untrained, is certainly a concern- but I'm not sure it cuts the way you want it to.
I could post these stories all day- had no idea there were so many of them.
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Target Practice Stray Bullet Injures 16yr-old Missouri Girl a Kilometre Away
27 July 2010
KTVI-TV Fox News (Missouri)
O'FALLON, Missouri - Bizarre new details are emerging about the stray bullet that hit a 16-year-old lifeguard in the leg at a crowded O'Fallon, Missouri subdivision pool. Investigators say the bullet came from teens using rifles for target practice. Police tell FOX 2 News that the bullet traveled nearly three quarters of a mile before hitting the lifeguard in the leg. On Tuesday there were lots of people at the Twin Chimneys Clubhouse Pool but several people told us... (GunPolicy.org)
Gosh- it's good he got 60 days, y'know:
Indiana Gunsmith Gets 60 Days for Killing Neighbour with Stray Bullet
9 February 2010
Associated Press
MARTINSVILLE, Indiana - The gunsmith who fired the stray bullet that killed a man as he slept in his central Indiana home has been sentenced to 60 days in jail. John Graf of rural Monrovia apologized during a Morgan County court hearing after pleading guilty to a felony criminal recklessness charge in the death last March of 35-year-old Jason Breisch. Graf had trouble looking at Breisch's widow and three children as he spoke. The judge ordered Graf to also serve a... (GunPolicy.org)
Boy Killed in Georgia Church by NYE Celebratory AK-47 Bullet
5 January 2010
Sydney Morning Herald
A four-year-old boy has been killed by a falling bullet that was fired into the air during New Year's Eve celebrations in the US. Marquel Peters was playing a video game inside a church in the state of Georgia when the bullet pierced the roof and hit him in the head, local media reported. He collapsed on the floor alongside his parents, bleeding, and was taken to hospital where he died. "I saw his Nintendo game fall on the floor, and I heard a sound and I heard him... (GunPolicy.org)
Innocent Shot Woman Latest of 400 Serious Hunting Accidents in Virginia
19 November 2009
Roanoke Times (Virginia)
There have been nearly 400 serious hunting-related accidents in Virginia since 1998, but Jessica Goode's death Wednesday was unusual. Victims are rarely nonhunters. Of 39 firearms-related hunting fatalities in Virginia since 1998, none involved a nonhunter, according to Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries spokeswoman Julia Dixon. But the circumstances of Wednesday's shooting, in which authorities say Jason David Cloutier of Ferrum mistook Goode and... (GunPolicy.org)
92-Year-Old Bronx Woman Killed in Her Living Room by Stray Bullet
21 October 2009
Daily News (New York)
A 92-year-old woman struck by a stray bullet in her Bronx living room used her last moments of strength to crawl to a phone and call her best friend for help. Sadie Mitchell — a beloved "mother to everyone on her block" who always carried fresh roses to church — was still alert when she dialed her pal minutes before she died. "She said, 'I've been shot,'" said neighbor Mary Fields. "I couldn't believe it. I said, 'What do you mean you've been shot?'" Fields and... (GunPolicy.org)
Target Shooting Neighbour's Stray Pistol Bullet Kills Indiana Man in Bed
11 March 2009
Indianapolis Star (Indiana)
A Morgan County man fatally shot Monday might have been hit by a stray bullet fired through nearby woods. Sheriff's detectives and forensic investigators today are piecing together the events that killed 35-year-old Jason Breisch in his bed. Investigators believe a neighbor was shooting a .45-caliber handgun into a wooded area between the homes. They think the bullet passed through the woods, over a ravine between the neighbors' houses and through the wall of the... (GunPolicy.org)
Massachusetts Suburb Hit by Stray Bullets, Locals Try to Close Gun Club
3 February 2009
Quincy Patriot-Ledger (Massachusetts)
BROCKTON — Three months after a stray bullet crashed through the window of a Heritage Trail home, residents have asked a judge to halt gunfire at the nearby Scituate Rod and Gun Club. Fifteen plaintiffs, all residents of Heritage Trail and Clapp Road, have requested an injunction that would temporarily stop the club from using its ranges — which they believe are the source of four stray bullets that have entered their neighborhood since 2004. "Until an injunction... (GunPolicy.org) |
