*sigh* pray to God that reasonable people still exist and blame the idiots, not the guns.
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The only time I like stupid people is when I read about how they die or do other things in the Darwin Award books. Some of these people qualify for that.
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About that second article, some people brought a "BB gun" into my old High School and it accidently discharged and hit a girl...accidenly discharged? Uh huh sure. It was just in the paper so it must have happened not to long ago.
That doctor harper guy and other people like him really piss me off, when they have no idea what their talking about it makes me so angry. It goes about 900 feet per second, I mean seriously, you are a DOCTOR. I would expect someone like him to be smart enough to look at the box of what one of those kids was using before he goes spamming to the news that the guns shoot 900 feet per second and all of that crap.
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I wonder if the reporter went and double-checked that number with Dr. Hyper I mean Harper, because that's a seriously overinflated claim.
And also they keep going back and forth between "BB" and "pellet" in that story. I mean, it's confusing enough that people keep thinking we're using air guns, let's not switch back and forth between ammunition types, too!
I did a little googling and found a website for a group a Dr. Armitage (Armie?) Harper works with. It's the Austin Retina Associates (click on physicians), but you can't seem to email them, or anything (that is just poor web design, IMO). Wusses.
At least you can get in touch with Seema Mathur, who wrote the story.
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That Frederick story is kinda funny. Grief counseling? I can see it now. "It was horrible! He pulled out a gun, and it made more of a 'tok' sound than a gunshot, and then I saw the BB bounce off his head! It was terrible!"
Am I the only person who has lost all faith in the future from the part of the 2nd story where they said that the school was offering counseling to the kids... even the ones who witnessed it?
I mean, good god... I'm just utterly speachless to think that there are actually kids out there who would need to be counseled after seeing someone hit with a small piece of plastic....
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Umm...you guys bashing the counseling are missing the point.
We know it's an airsoft gun and that their lives were never in any danger. When this idiot brought his replica to school, the other kids DIDN'T know that it was an airsoft gun and their lives were never in danger. They thought they were going to die, and that is a traumatic experience.
If they were bringing in counselors and the gun was a clear springer, that's just gay. But still, the point is that 99% of people out there can't tell the difference between airsoft and real steel. That's why we constantly preach safety.
Maybe its just me, but if I find out that I was scared of a toy, yeah I will have been shaken up at the time because I thought it was real but after I found out it was a toy... sorry, I'm just not seeing it.
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I'm telling you guys, a news team at an event would help. Look what happened out in cali...they were welcomed with open arms and the safety measures were so obvious that nothing but good reporting came of it. I highly doubt the channel 6 news team would bash this, they hardly scam any story.
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I'm telling you guys, a news team at an event would help. Look what happened out in cali...they were welcomed with open arms and the safety measures were so obvious that nothing but good reporting came of it. I highly doubt the channel 6 news team would bash this, they hardly scam any story.
While it may sound like a good idea, even if we got a reporter who was genuinely on our side we would have to control every single aspect of the piece, from the cameraman all the way up to the owners of whatever broadcast company it was being run by. Every single person involved in controlling, airing, editing... everything would have to be on our side. In short, impossible. Too unpredictable.
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Coeus is right. All we would need is one slip up. One tiny thing to go wrong and the whole thing is ruined. Plus it would be too difficult to get everyone on our side to air it.
I didnt read the article but it sounds sucky. Yet when you think about it, people bring REAL guns into school and really do kill people- those guns are still being sold legally. Someone brings an airsoft gun into school and shoots someone... that's just a disturbed kid begging for serious trouble. BB's and Pellets are good to describe what goes in an air gun. Plastic BB's are good to describe what goes in an airsoft gun.
I believe I was delerious from the local watering hole when I posted that comment...my apologies. Not to mention I woke up on a ferris wheel wearing the Rowan University Mascot outfit, holding flowers in Atlantic City. No idea...
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I didnt read the article but it sounds sucky. Yet when you think about it, people bring REAL guns into school and really do kill people- those guns are still being sold legally. Someone brings an airsoft gun into school and shoots someone... that's just a disturbed kid begging for serious trouble. BB's and Pellets are good to describe what goes in an air gun. Plastic BB's are good to describe what goes in an airsoft gun.
Yeah! this way only the kid WITH the gun gets shot not just him and everyone else he sees. Much safer.
Yeah! this way only the kid WITH the gun gets shot not just him and everyone else he sees. Much safer.
/We should go on a strike against stupid people.
What? So you're saying you advocate giving the stupid/disturbed kids an airsoft gun to take to school so they can be shot, and not shoot others? Because it's better by being safer?
Allow me to explain to you why your comment is beyond stupid.
Forget the kid for a moment, think about the cop who must fire on the child only to later realize the gun was a fake, and he wasn't a real danger at all. Dropping an armed guy is bad enough on an officer, dropping a faux armed kid is about as bad as it gets. Then, he's put under serious investigation because, somehow in the mind of the higher ups, the cop should've known better. THEN, he has to deal with the media because the newspapers surly can't let this go. THEN he has to deal with his own conscience because he shot a child with a toy.
Then we can move onto the kid. If you know he's that stupid/disturbed... don't you think it'd be a bit wiser to try and actually get him some counciling? Perhaps head a disaster off at the pass?
Trust me, you don't want people to strike against stupid people.
Ah, the wrath of Randy - white hot fury hotter than a thousand suns.
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I'm not out to burn anyone. I'm out to point out that the line of thinking that "kill those that are a problem" doesn't work because it's not robots doing the killing.
Trust me, you don't want people to strike against stupid people.
That my friend, is a wicked burn.
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