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Old 07-19-2015, 09:02 PM
 
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Accept it. It is collateral damage of the 2nd Amendment.

A grandfather who was roasting marshmallows with his grandson in a Forest Service campground in Colorado was killed by a stray bullet this month.
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Old 07-20-2015, 09:06 AM
 
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Accept it. It is collateral damage of the 2nd Amendment.
This happened in a city, where gun laws are generally stricter (don't know for sure about Indianapolis though) and often in the hands of criminals. Read the article, it says people are 2.5 times more likely to be killed in that neighborhood that any other in the city.

Accept it. It's collateral damage of the mindset of criminals living in the hood owning ILLEGAL guns.
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Old 07-20-2015, 09:10 AM
 
Location: Ca2Mo2Ga2Va!
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sad story...sometimes it's just your time...was this in the ghetto? i mean pretty much couldn't see that happening in my neighborhood but it's so sad to me that people have to live like this and raise kids in these areas.
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Old 07-20-2015, 09:24 AM
 
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Accept it. It is collateral damage of the 2nd Amendment.
Ya its very sad
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Old 07-20-2015, 09:25 AM
 
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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Having kitchen on 20th floor might help somewhat, I guess. Look for tall buildings, if you have to live in a city. Actually, even 2nd floor sounds less likely to get a stray bullet, than the 1st floor.
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Old 07-20-2015, 09:25 AM
 
Location: Southern California
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Not all that rare?? I think you need to look up the definition of rare.
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Old 07-20-2015, 10:14 AM
 
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People slip and fall in their own homes and die all the time, far more frequently than this happens.
Yeah; but that's not usually the result of someone else's mental retardation.

Florida New Year's eve and you could hear the gunfire at midnight all over the state. All those bullets going up and these retards don't bother to think about them coming back down, just like all of those simple minded Arabs firing off their weapons in the air every time someone gets beheaded.

Guns and New Year's Eve - A Lethal Mix - NYTimes.com

Guns and idiots; a lethal mix. There's far too many of both.
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Old 07-20-2015, 11:44 AM
 
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Yeah; but that's not usually the result of someone else's mental retardation.

Florida New Year's eve and you could hear the gunfire at midnight all over the state. All those bullets going up and these retards don't bother to think about them coming back down, just like all of those simple minded Arabs firing off their weapons in the air every time someone gets beheaded.

Guns and New Year's Eve - A Lethal Mix - NYTimes.com

Guns and idiots; a lethal mix. There's far too many of both.
OMG run for your life, duck for cover. If you're worried about it hide under a desk...
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Old 07-20-2015, 12:54 PM
 
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Not all that rare?? I think you need to look up the definition of rare.
I'm sure hundreds if not thousands of people have been hit with stray bullets.
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Old 07-20-2015, 01:05 PM
 
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I'm sure hundreds if not thousands of people have been hit with stray bullets.
I hear stories at least once a year coming from NJ's largest cities/worst neighborhoods, where stray bullets from outside pierced a home and hit someone. Or sometimes hit a car as someone was driving by, an unintentional target. It's what happens when guns are in the hands of gangs. It's also an accident that occurs when people are hunting, but I'm not sure how common that is.
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