• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Well, shotguns generally are extremely range limited, and birdshot is pretty mild after a couple dozen feet. You’re not gonna hurt someone accidentally, even if you completely miss the thing.

    Handguns and rifles have an extremely high likelihood of hitting something or someone behind whatever you’re shooting at and travel great distance. Miss the camera, and you end up doming some poor bastard just walking down the street a mile away, or hitting some kid chilling in their room.

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      24 hours ago

      If by “extremely high likelihood” you mean “a remote but non zero chance” then I agree. It’s obviously too high a chance to take when it could result in someone’s death, but there’s just to much empty space between people to make it likely he would hit someone.

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        12 hours ago

        Well if you’re aiming up toward a camera on a pole, and miss, there’s a 100% chance it hits something else behind it. That being a person is low, but that’s not the only irresponsible thing to hit with a bullet.

        Also, there are 30-40 deaths every year from inadvertent falling bullets from shooting up into the air.

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          2 hours ago

          I’m not defending shooting into the air, I’m just disputing the “extremely high likelihood” that you will hit a person.

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            2 hours ago

            I mean, if you just gloss over half of what I said sure.

            You’re not disputing anything because that’s not what I said.

            I said you have an extremely high likelihood of hitting “something or someone” behind it.

            Which is absolutely true.

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      1 day ago

      That’s fair acrually but I would hope he would walk up to it and shoot it and not try to hit it with a scope from 100 yards away.

      There is truth in what you say though.

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        12 hours ago

        I’ve seen people completely miss a target from 5 feet out lol. And even then, the cameras are mostly plastic. A higher-powered rifle or handgun round would just go right through and keep going like nothing.