Comments on: Teens arrested for playing cowboys & indians err Native Americans

By: Tennessee Budd

Tennessee Budd — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:02:22 +0000

I work in H’ville. Yep, it bites, but the money’s good.
Of course, being sensible, I live in Robertson county.

By: ColtCCO

ColtCCO — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:29:13 +0000

This is retarded – I grew up in Hendersonville, for the most part, and never ran into this sort of nonsense with MY toy guns.

ColtCCO

By: gattsuru

gattsuru — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:04:00 +0000

With a typical plastic 0.12 g pellets and an a Kmart-friendly 1 Kj spring? That’ll bounce off any glass freezing rain can’t penetrate. A more serious rig might run plastic pellets at 0.25 g pellets, and some of the springs you can find on the aftermarket can get some real power moving. You’d have to modify or order these from overseas since American manufactors can’t seem to get decent pellets to the market and only gun and target stores will offer AirSoft that get close to 2.1 Kj of power, but it’d be enough to leave nice, round, 6mm holes in glass, saying you fired from very close range.

Pathetic that society is so fearful of this sorta stuff these days. I can’t say the kids were being brilliant, but to ban the discharge [i]anywhere[/i] in the town?

Kids were lucky they didn’t get in worse trouble : all airsoft guns are supposed to have a >6mm orange tip at time of sale under federal law, and while I think TN lets you shave that crap off, many officers don’t know that.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:11:56 +0000

Its part of a national movement aimed at making guns, even toys, taboo in our culture. Hopefully it will backfire as more and more people realize the pathological insanity of it.

When I was a kid, we carried BB guns (real ones�not the wimpy plastic pellet jobs of today) and .22 rifles (actual firearms) around town openly and no one said a word about it. After years of this, my brothers and I were approached by the local “town clown” (i.e. sheriff’s deputy) while carrying two .22 rifles across town toward the woods where we went shooting. The oldest among us couldn�t have been more than 13 years old.

He wanted to make sure the rifles were unloaded as we carried them though town, which of course they were. End of conversation. We considered even that as a willful violation of our privacy. This would have been around 1969ish in Eastern Washington state.

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:30:53 +0000

Never overestimate the intelligence or good sense of an elected official. Most are only good at being popular. When someone can be popular enough to win an election by majority, odds are he/she is lying to somebody or somebody is just as damn dumb or dumber than the candidate.

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:32:47 +0000

Officers, plural, raced to the scene?

Sounds like they have too many cops, I guess.

Kit: You can shoot out a window with an AirSoft? What do they make the windows out of out there, tissue paper?

By: chris

chris — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:04:14 +0000

I sure feel safer now.

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:46:24 +0000

Here (Missoula, MT) it’s illegal to fire airsoft guns in the city limits. But the police only enforce it when someone is shooting out windows or otherwise vandalizing stuff, or shooting at people/animals. Which is a good thing, because I shoot mine in my basement.

By: Ron W

Ron W — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:06:05 +0000

This demonstrates how out of touch officialdom either becomes or already is when they are elected. People need to remember that they VOTED FOR THOSE who do this stuff and that they are their EMPLOYEES. Tell them to rescind or change the law.

By: Rustmeister

Rustmeister — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:02:01 +0000

Oh, and shouldn’t that be “cowpersons”?

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:35:30 +0000

Kids playing with toy guns? How un-American. I’m horrified. Reminded me to pick up a brick of .22’s for my 4 yr old grandkid’s rifle before she runs out. Jack.

By: Rustmeister

Rustmeister — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:06:34 +0000

Even snowballs? good gawd!

We need a new essay: The Pussification of Middle Tennessee.