• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    From what the video on the report seems to imply, it looks like the kids took their ATV on private property that their parents told them not to go on.

    Still though, ATVs aren’t silent. The fact that they kept shooting wasn’t smart at all.

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      10 months ago

      If you don’t want to go deaf really quickly you should be wearing ear protection while shooting. If they were then I doubt they could have heard the ATV. If they weren’t wearing hearing protection then they were probably too deaf to hear anything anyways.

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          10 months ago

          Ah. The bigger air rifles aren’t that common in the US (because you could just get a normal rifle almost as easily) so I was assuming it was a regular rifle. Yeah, the shooter should have definitely noticed then.

          Obviously we don’t have all the details but to hit the kid center of mass and kill him with an air rifle it seems hard to belive that was entirely accidental. A .22 air rifle only has an effective range of about 50 yards. There’s no way the shooter didn’t see the kid when they pulled the trigger let alone hear the ATV. I’m wondering if the shooter deliberately shot at the kid for trespassing thinking an air rifle wouldn’t do any real damage. A lot of people don’t realize how much damage air rifles can do. At the same time though .177 is the normal target shooting air rifle caliber and the most common one. The only reason you would specifically buy a .22 caliber air rifle is for hunting so the shooter should have known what it was capable of.

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        10 months ago

        People might have been wearing it, but it was an air rifle. Those have a solid bang, but they are nothing like a real fire arm.