Law enforcement investigating the shooting canvassed several residences to the north of the deadly shooting and found that all but one -- Adams' -- had "suitable shooting backstops or firing locations," according to the affidavit.
So… pretty much everyone in the area had a shooting range except the accused?
A "backstop" is not a shooting range...
It's usually just a pile of dirt.
It's wild for a bunch of people in a neighborhood to all be doing this, because even if the first couple are kind of safe about it, every idiot starts thinking jt's safe to just shoot at a can or anything. All they know is they hear gunshots
Sounds like a terrible neighbourhood to live in, shots going off from everyone all the time
I'm picturing celebratory gunfire into the air every weekend.
Rent must be hella cheap
This is Oklahoma.
Exactly. Why didn’t he have a shooting range too?
And this is why we shouldn't just let every fuckhead idiot have a gun.
Exactly! I don't want to take away your guns. I want fuckheads like these to not be able to buy them in the first place.
Gun ownership should come with a psych test and some kind of basic system for ensuring people understand the gravity of the device they are purchasing at minimum. As it stands, I can walk into a pawn shop a few blocks away and have a weapon in almost no time, and I'm all kinds of fucked up.
Gun rights, keeping people safe since... Never.
And keeping tyrants who abuse the constitution in check since.. Also never.
Just gonna politely point out that America is living under extreme corruption and tyranny right now, and the 2nd amendment aint doing shit to help with that problem. Sure gets lots of innocent citizens killed though.
Just like any expected conflict ever, the 2nd amendment caused an arms race - and the govt is far, far more heavily armed than the people.
System works as designed. The second amendment fuckwits never cared about freedom and democracy at all.
Except the freedom to have their murdertoys and power fantasies.
its usually the people on the right that are touting the 2nd admen, and they are okay with the faciscm.
The common modern interpretation of the 2nd amendment being that gun sales and ownership must be almost completely unregulated is bullshit and not at all the way it was intended to be interpreted. It was supposed to protect the right of people to form and maintain local militias independent from the federal government, hence the "well-regulated militia" wording. The idea was that if local governments maintained their own militias consisting of private citizens it would create a collective military force capable of keeping the federal army in check. The modern emphasis on individual gun ownership with no organization has clearly not served this purpose.
Who is protecting your democracy?
Well obviously Dale, the overweight guy who wants nothing more than owing guns and Nazis memorabilia
The dumbfuck Adams is one of many reasons why the USA needs stricter gun control. I wonder if the worthless POS is a Charlie Kirk supporter.
Is it just a given that if a man's middle name is "Wayne" he's going to jail at some point?
My middle name is Wayne...
Wee woo wee woo
"I'm a responsible gun owner, i have owned guns since the dawn of light" - Proceeds to 360 no-scope the neighbor.
Well, no, the average gun owner in USA is not a responsible gun owner.
There's gotta be a name for the look where a physically unfit/poor performing American tries to offset this by donning physically "tough" fashion accessories and hair dos.
I know there's gravy seals, but they kind of take it to the next level.
This, it's more like a defence mechanism. Like they'd totally get their ass kicked in literally anything—fighting, jogging, getting up out of a chair—but they keep themselves safe by dressing up and casting tough stares.
Yup, that's why if you're going to practice, do so on a range and always consider: what the hell is BEHIND/AROUND my target?
JFC for a nation as obsessed with firearms as the United States, the level of firearms safety knowledge is shockingly low.
People in my neck of the woods talk about fire arms the way I talk about video games or TV shows. They sound like recreation rather than self defense. I don’t know if knowledge is the only factor; a sense of seriousness about firearms seems to be lacking.
Dude was shooting without a backstop, fucking idiot...
We have a place literally designed for target practice, it's called the "shooting range". Ever heard of it ?
If only that baby were armed, it could have returned fire and everything would have been okay. More guns is the solution!
It’s insane to me how many people think that taking guns away will actually increase the violence.. like the people that would normally shoot up a place would suddenly become experts at building bombs and take out WAY more people.. when the reality is that those people would probably be more likely to blow themselves up trying to build a bomb.. guns are so simple to kill with, a toddler could do it. Building a bomb or something equivalent is much harder than pulling a trigger.
In civilized parts of the world, it is illegal to discharge a firearm in an urban area or within X metres of an occupied building etc.
In the USA people shoot in their suburban backyard.
For what it's worth, it's illegal in the USA too. Obviously that didn't stop this moron.
I can't think of a place I've lived where discharge of firearms within city limits was not illegal. This moron probably didn't care.
Ban all lead bullets. Ban all semi-auto. Ban all pistols, revolvers, handguns. Nothing but black powder, or bolt action rifle.
Geez, if he'd lived any closer it would have gone through her and into the baby as well. Although she probably dropped the baby in any case.
1st degree means pre meditated.
Should be negligent homicide.
1st degree doesn't mean premeditated, it means to the highest degree. A murder charge typically implies premeditation whereas manslaughter implies recklessness.
1st degree manslaughter sounds right to me, killing someone accidentally through extreme recklessness in this case.
There’s a bullet hole in the flashing under my second floor gutters, facing the street. Doesn’t look like it came from nearby, like it’s not slanted down toward the street or anything. No idea how long it’s been there, but I found it a few years ago when cleaning the gutters. Bullet might still be lodged in there.
It’s genuinely wild to me that people just fire this shit off willy-nilly.
My wife worked with someone that didn't know that bullets come down after you shoot them in the air. People are fucking stupid.
It’s genuinely wild to me that Americans let just anyone have the capability to do that.
Coworker of mine was shot through her apartment floor (accidental discharge). She almost died.
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