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‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamond
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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People in a field shoot without reguard to what's in the direction of the bullets they are firing. Kids flee, a coach is shot and someone thought they should blame the baseball field builders lol. Mate if you fire a gun and there is any reasonable belief that bullet can strike something other than your target, you should be charged with shooting at that object.
To me that means attempting to kill that coach/kids.
If you fire a gun, you are 100% responsible for the bullet, full stop.
What if you're at a paid indoor range and your bullet goes through the back stop wall because the range cheaped out?
Really? That's how you choose to debate? By inventing unrealistic scenarios that have likely never occured, or ever will occur? Wouldn't an indoor firing range have regulations and code requirements that would keep a bullet from going through a wall and hitting someone outside?
That's like wondering if the rule would apply if an alien spaceship fired a space laser, and deflected the bullet to hit someone, would the shooter still be responsible?
No, Skippy, in that case, probably not. You got me there, I guess you win the entire argument that ALL gun users are taught they they are 100% responsible for the path of their bullet.
Relax. Seems like a silly what if. Not a debate.
For real. I mean the universe rarely deals in absolutes. Ask a physicist if there's a chance if you can pass your hand straight through a table and technically, yes their is. Even though it's astronomically improbable.
I just mentioned a scenario I thought of from the top of my head where the shooter wouldn't be the one liable for what the bullet did. I could come up with more. It's just silly to claim "100% full stop" with just about anything.