my Dad made it home around 10pm last night. They evacuated the yard office by office, did a debriefing (did you know the shooter? No. You can go.) bussed them to Nationals Stadium and turned them loose.
I hope this isn't in bad taste, but doesn't this kind of poke holes in the NRA theory that the reason for mass shootings is that people don't have enough guns? I can't think of a place more likely to have a bunch of people with guns than a secure military facility. Then again the answer would probably be "think how many more people would have died if blah blah etc etc"
I hope this isn't in bad taste, but doesn't this kind of poke holes in the NRA theory that the reason for mass shootings is that people don't have enough guns? I can't think of a place more likely to have a bunch of people with guns than a secure military facility. Then again the answer would probably be "think how many more people would have died if blah blah etc etc"
I hope this isn't in bad taste, but doesn't this kind of poke holes in the NRA theory that the reason for mass shootings is that people don't have enough guns? I can't think of a place more likely to have a bunch of people with guns than a secure military facility. Then again the answer would probably be "think how many more people would have died if blah blah etc etc"
Is it wrong to get together with six of your friends and get into a helicopter and fly around shooting at junkyards with assault rifles? Is that truly insane behavior? Who among us is qualified to judge these alarmingly deranged men?
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Well, what they did isn't illegal.
It was monumentally stupid, but it wasn't illegal.
I'm not going to lie, if I lived in the middle of nowhere and someone said hey, we're going to go up in a helicopter and shoot at a broken down car, wanna come? I would.
I mean not in the case that's described in that article, that seems monumentally stupid, but in a way more rural setting? Sure.
That's not to say that gun control policy in the US isn't a ridiculous mess because oh yeah, it is.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
I'm not going to lie, if I lived in the middle of nowhere and someone said hey, we're going to go up in a helicopter and shoot at a broken down car, wanna come? I would.
I mean not in the case that's described in that article, that seems monumentally stupid, but in a way more rural setting? Sure.
That's not to say that gun control policy in the US isn't a ridiculous mess because oh yeah, it is.
no no no, gun control policy is fine (if not TOO tight!); the real problem is those evil brainwashing helicopter-shooting games like Battlefield or SimCopter.
I'm not going to lie, if I lived in the middle of nowhere and someone said hey, we're going to go up in a helicopter and shoot at a broken down car, wanna come? I would.
I mean not in the case that's described in that article, that seems monumentally stupid, but in a way more rural setting? Sure.
That's not to say that gun control policy in the US isn't a ridiculous mess because oh yeah, it is.
no no no, gun control policy is fine (if not TOO tight!); the real problem is those evil brainwashing helicopter-shooting games like Battlefield or SimCopter.
Honestly the problem would be solved if we all carried a gun at all times, they should just issue them when you graduate from high school.
But only if you graduate, no diploma no gun.
There, solved crime and education in one fell swoop. ELECT ME
I'll agree it's monumentally stupid but honestly it sounds kinda fun too, assuming they're all properly trained with the weapons, have a qualified pilot, and they were in an isolated area. From the sound of it they were too close to neighborhoods. Likely a city or state law could be pretty easily pushed through to force such activities to be held in less populated areas and possibly require approval or a special license.
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I'm not going to lie, if I lived in the middle of nowhere and someone said hey, we're going to go up in a helicopter and shoot at a broken down car, wanna come? I would.
I mean not in the case that's described in that article, that seems monumentally stupid, but in a way more rural setting? Sure.
That's not to say that gun control policy in the US isn't a ridiculous mess because oh yeah, it is.
no no no, gun control policy is fine (if not TOO tight!); the real problem is those evil brainwashing helicopter-shooting games like Battlefield or SimCopter.
Honestly the problem would be solved if we all carried a gun at all times, they should just issue them when you graduate from high school.
But only if you graduate, no diploma no gun.
There, solved crime and education in one fell swoop. ELECT ME
The sad truth is that you not only could run in Pennsylvania on that platform for real, but that you would have a damn good chance of winning.
I'll agree it's monumentally stupid but honestly it sounds kinda fun too, assuming they're all properly trained with the weapons, have a qualified pilot, and they were in an isolated area. From the sound of it they were too close to neighborhoods. Likely a city or state law could be pretty easily pushed through to force such activities to be held in less populated areas and possibly require approval or a special license.
Honestly feel pretty uneasy with Joe Schmoe getting in a helicopter with some AR-15s and playing out the scene from Apocalypse Now with Ride of the Valkyries blasting in his earbuds. There's responsible firearm use and then there's being a silly goose.
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
Would you even want to live in a country where doing something like that is illegal
I live in the US and its illegal for me to do that.
Frankly I'm not surprised that if you're rich enough to fly a helicopter around you're also rich enough to avoid prosecution for any dumb shit you do while riding in it.
Do we have any actual information on just how 'close' they were to the neighborhoods? It said the guy had 80 acres. Also, I'm betting at some point they're taking a trip to Alaska to helicopter-hunt wolves. They made that legal, right?
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Would you even want to live in a country where doing something like that is illegal
I live in the US and its illegal for me to do that.
Frankly I'm not surprised that if you're rich enough to fly a helicopter around you're also rich enough to avoid prosecution for any dumb shit you do while riding in it.
Oh yeah I went there.
you can get a helicopter kit nowadays for the cost of a sports car
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
Would you even want to live in a country where doing something like that is illegal
I live in the US and its illegal for me to do that.
Frankly I'm not surprised that if you're rich enough to fly a helicopter around you're also rich enough to avoid prosecution for any dumb shit you do while riding in it.
Oh yeah I went there.
you can get a helicopter kit nowadays for the cost of a sports car
And at this point a sports car is unattainable, too.
Do we have any actual information on just how 'close' they were to the neighborhoods? It said the guy had 80 acres. Also, I'm betting at some point they're taking a trip to Alaska to helicopter-hunt wolves. They made that legal, right?
Let me tell you about the size of Rhode Island. It is not very large.
At the same time, they were not charged with anything, they were not "that close" to neighborhoods. There's a fair amount of deer hunting that goes on in Charlestown and there are some good size tracts of forest. However, they were close enough to the complainant's property that he heard the noise and went to investigate. They were not on a gun range and that guy could easily have wandered into a dangerous situation if he didn't have his wits about him.
The FAA is investigating, they may pull his license for dangerous flying or they may look the other way.
For work I sell tickets in downtown DC. All morning yesterday all the employees I ran across commented on how empty DC was looking. And a lot of customers were asking if there were any dangerous parts of the city they should avoid.
I wouldn't find out about the shooting until my lunch break.
Do we have any actual information on just how 'close' they were to the neighborhoods? It said the guy had 80 acres. Also, I'm betting at some point they're taking a trip to Alaska to helicopter-hunt wolves. They made that legal, right?
There are several gravel pits within very reasonable flying distance of 151 Biscuit City Road, but you'd have to struggle to get to any of them without flying over anyone's house. All the pits I can see are right next to residential areas, but it's not necessarily unsafe to fire guns in a gravel pit. Not sure I'm into the idea of four (or however many) people in a helicopter firing guns in a gravel pit, though.
Presumably one of the people named owned it, so if you care enough to look through the list, all their addresses are right there. Is this common? It seems like a lot of information for people who haven't been convicted of anything
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This would only be true in a world of logic, Tube
jesus fucking christ
The ONLY solution is more guns
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Obviously the DC gun ban was the only reason that everyone with a desk job wasn't polishing their very own desk drawer assault rifle.
http://www.thewesterlysun.com/home/top/2388090-129/helicopter-gun-play-alarms-residents.html
SERIOUSLY?
It was monumentally stupid, but it wasn't illegal.
Yes please
I mean not in the case that's described in that article, that seems monumentally stupid, but in a way more rural setting? Sure.
That's not to say that gun control policy in the US isn't a ridiculous mess because oh yeah, it is.
no no no, gun control policy is fine (if not TOO tight!); the real problem is those evil brainwashing helicopter-shooting games like Battlefield or SimCopter.
Honestly the problem would be solved if we all carried a gun at all times, they should just issue them when you graduate from high school.
But only if you graduate, no diploma no gun.
There, solved crime and education in one fell swoop. ELECT ME
The sad truth is that you not only could run in Pennsylvania on that platform for real, but that you would have a damn good chance of winning.
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Honestly feel pretty uneasy with Joe Schmoe getting in a helicopter with some AR-15s and playing out the scene from Apocalypse Now with Ride of the Valkyries blasting in his earbuds. There's responsible firearm use and then there's being a silly goose.
I live in the US and its illegal for me to do that.
Frankly I'm not surprised that if you're rich enough to fly a helicopter around you're also rich enough to avoid prosecution for any dumb shit you do while riding in it.
Oh yeah I went there.
you can get a helicopter kit nowadays for the cost of a sports car
And at this point a sports car is unattainable, too.
Let me tell you about the size of Rhode Island. It is not very large.
At the same time, they were not charged with anything, they were not "that close" to neighborhoods. There's a fair amount of deer hunting that goes on in Charlestown and there are some good size tracts of forest. However, they were close enough to the complainant's property that he heard the noise and went to investigate. They were not on a gun range and that guy could easily have wandered into a dangerous situation if he didn't have his wits about him.
The FAA is investigating, they may pull his license for dangerous flying or they may look the other way.
I wouldn't find out about the shooting until my lunch break.
There are several gravel pits within very reasonable flying distance of 151 Biscuit City Road, but you'd have to struggle to get to any of them without flying over anyone's house. All the pits I can see are right next to residential areas, but it's not necessarily unsafe to fire guns in a gravel pit. Not sure I'm into the idea of four (or however many) people in a helicopter firing guns in a gravel pit, though.
Presumably one of the people named owned it, so if you care enough to look through the list, all their addresses are right there. Is this common? It seems like a lot of information for people who haven't been convicted of anything