Mixon House Gun

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(03-07-2023, 02:44 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Such a sad turn of events.

When I was a kid we always had fake snub nose cap pistols and not those cheap caps that were in a roll, the loud ones that always went off. Had BB gun fights as well where the only rules were no head, neck, or nut shots and no pellet guns allowed.  

Was not uncommon to see boys with guns walking neighborhoods and we all owned real shotguns as well that we knew to only take to the woods to shoot. Yet you had to walk the neighborhood to get to the woods. Those days are gone in this crazy world per all the violence society is immersed in these days.

When I was young there were just a couple murders a year in Louisville Ky, but sadly that is nearly 200 a year now.  

But did look up nerf gun images and unless the kid painted it all black then it should have been noticeable before an actual shot was fired. Probably an old man with poor eyesight and judgement who pulled trigger that he now regrets.

Back 15+ years ago, Lakota schools (or at least West) used to have multiple organized Nerf Wars among the school kids that involved kids being able to get any of their classmates as long as it was A) off school property, B) off church property, C) the person wasn't actively at work, and D) couldn't enter someone's home without someone's permission.
But there were quite a lot of teenagers driving around town chasing classmates and also sneaking around houses to surprise each other.

I am not sure if they still do these, but I can imagine it'd require a lot more carefulness nowadays given how people are so much more twitchy to assume actual firearms without thinking before reacting.