The Annoyed Man wrote:SQLGeek wrote:That is terrible. What a senseless loss of lives.
Idiots with guns took two innocent lives.
It’s senseless and tragic, but in all fairness to the shooters, it is entirely possible that they were practicing every reasonable precaution and had no idea that someone had strayed into an impact zone, which locals know is a dangerous place to be. It’s a desert. Bullets travel a long way. The victim may have been hidden behind a fold in the earth, and the shooters could have had no idea she was there. She was the young wife of an airman stationed at a nearby AFB, and probably did not have local knowledge of the area in which she was hiking. OR, maybe she did, but just wasn’t paying attention to where she was. We’ll never know, but I hate to attribute idiocy to the shooters, who might have been behaving entirely responsibly. When I lived in SoCal, there was a private 1000 yard range run by a club called “Desert Marksman”, located on BLM land on the Mojave side of the San Gabriel mountains, outside of Palmdale. I never shot there myself, but I had friends who were members. I used to wonder if anyone ever accidentally strayed into their target area while hiking around in the desert, and whether or not shooters would be able to clearly see such a person from the firing line. The club owned or controlled the land the range was on, but they had no control over whatever happened outside the land they controlled......and it being open BLM desert, pretty much nobody else did either other than the odd BLM employee.
I have to disagree. You are responsible for every bullet that leaves your barrel. Thats also the law.