The kid throwing rocks is lucky the one in the car didn't have a bazooka or a grenade...

 

You are right, I was living out there stuff like that started, I think it was 1986 when they started what was called out there random fun shooting, wasn't so fun for anyone. What people did was just drive up along side of vehicles and just shoot at them, the first one I remember was a undercover police van and they shot into the back and killed a female police officer.

 

Now as far as having bazooka (in the trunk maybe) or a grenade (in the glove box maybe)a loaded gun (better than 50% in some areas) out there, depending on where in SAN they were, I could see loaded F/A a weapon of choice.

 

Harry

 

Today's youth caused this to me last week. Not only was the jeep parked in my driveway, but they did it when I was home. A brick can cause a lot of damage. The kid got what he deserved, he's lucky to be alive but I bet that's the last time he throws rocks at cars.

So I want to say that I am extremely disturbed that people think that shooting a kid with a crossbow, which could easily have been fatal, was in ANY way proportional to the threat.

 

This disturbs me because there are people here in the forum who are willing to strap one on and swagger around Cabella's with no more training than a Hunter's Ed card. OK, fine, feel free. But noone should be under any illusions; "people" read this board and make conclusions about the nature of people here.

 

When we as a community accommodate individuals, or collectively opine, that the use of deadly force is appropriate to prank behaviour, then we are giving succour to our enemies, pure and simple. Keeping and bearing firearms may well be a Constitionally protected right, but the use of deadly force carries the responsibility of belief that it was the ONLY thing that could be done at the time.

 

This rock/crossbow event does not even come close. The shooter is to be condemned for his actions, not lauded or in any way justified.

 

To do anything else is to show the AG and others that we cannot be trusted to react rationally and proportionately.

 

Bad show.

G.

To do anything else is to show the AG and others that we cannot be trusted to react rationally and proportionately.

 

Yes, because three solid decades of pretending we're all just a bunch of responsible hunters has done so much for us

The punishment doesn't fit the crime, but I think that punk will reconsider throwing things at cars.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/aug/30/san-diego-boy-throwing-rocks-hit-by-arrow/

 

SAN DIEGO — San Diego police say a 16-year-old boy throwing rocks at a sport utility vehicle was struck by an arrow fired by a passenger.

 

Police say the shirtless boy and a friend were throwing rocks at a black Toyota RAV4 in the Linda Vista neighborhood Monday afternoon when a passenger fired a crossbow out the window.

 

The boy was shot in the right side and was taken to a hospital. The San Diego Union-Tribune says his injuries are not life-threatening.

 

His name wasn't released.

 

Nobody has been arrested.

The bottom line here is that taking a second pass to load, cock, aim and fire a crossbow at someone of any age CANNOT be in ANY way construed to represent self defense. It's laughable someone would think it is.

The bottom line here is that taking a second pass to load, cock, aim and fire a crossbow at someone of any age CANNOT be in ANY way construed to represent self defense. It's laughable someone would think it is.

 

No, it's not self defense. I like to think of it as garbage disposal, of which I am also a fan.