No one cares if you “feel unsafe”
Local busybody doesn’t want people to engage in lawful activities on their own property:
One Knox County woman is asking commissioners to limit the shooting of firearms in residential areas.
Lisa Blair-Rogers lives in Knox County, just north of Fountain City. Her neighborhood is not in a particularly remote area, and houses are spaced about as far apart as they might be in some neighborhoods located within city limits
Well, sparky, unless they’re pointing it at you, you’re probably safe.
December 23rd, 2015 at 2:51 pm
I just recall reading that the murder rates have hit a low they haven’t been at since Kennedy was President. (and allow me to go off on a tangent and top that off with the fact that rifles, all rifles not just ebr’s account for a grand total of maybe 3.5% of gun crimes, well…)
The point I’m lazily getting to is that irrational fears don’t and should not outweigh constitutional rights.
December 23rd, 2015 at 8:54 pm
“I just moved to the neighborhood, and now that I’m here I want to change everything to be exactly like the place 5 miles down the road.”
December 23rd, 2015 at 9:05 pm
What came out of her mouth was “you would think in my logical mind, at least, that if the city won’t let you shoot your gun, at all, then the county could look at some kind of ordinance.”
But this is what she was thinking “In my irrational fear, at least, I’m scared of all my neighbors because they have so much ordnance.”
Anyone live near her? Let’s shoot about 10k rounds one evening!!!
December 23rd, 2015 at 9:30 pm
Sometimes, the safest place on the range is directly in front of my target. That’s rare, however. You really, really don’t want to be in a situation that causes me to cover down on you with one of my firearms. I do usually group nicely at center-of-mass in a fist-sized area.
December 24th, 2015 at 9:01 am
I’m not for laws prohibiting this but I understand her concern. Is the shooting being done by the juvenile delinquent just down the street who got a new gun for Christmas or by a responsible gun owner who probably wouldn’t be shooting in the neighborhood anyway?
December 24th, 2015 at 9:07 am
Her neighbor may have enough acreage to shoot safely and she does not like the noise.
December 24th, 2015 at 9:12 am
RE: Shooting Inside a Residential Area
Interesting ordinances they have there. Where I live, it’s unlawful to discharge a firearm in a residential area.
December 24th, 2015 at 9:14 am
RE: Like RAH Said
The shooting generates definitely unsettling noise. I know that I snap wide awake at the sound of a gun being fired. [NOTE: It does happen here. Somebody out ‘celebrating’ something in the dark of night.]
Whether it’s a .22 or a .357 mag, it could be considered disturbing the peace.
December 24th, 2015 at 9:30 am
I grew up in a rural area, but there were many homes all in the same valley. I’d hear shooting pretty much any day when the weather was nice…fathers and sons in their backyards. It was quite comforting, really.
I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I went home to visit as an adult and heard the familiar sounds.
Though I live in a suburban neighborhood now, I do my best to keep that tradition alive, though I use a suppressor.
December 24th, 2015 at 11:14 am
As I always say, beware of people with hyphenated surnames.
December 24th, 2015 at 12:09 pm
I get the concern. We have guns and live in a very rural area. Just last year, though, some people…not from here, but who maintain a “weekend” place here in a rural subdivision with maybe 3 acre lots..shot and killed their next door neighbor who was out mowing his grass. They were target shooting in the back yard, and in their citified ignorance, thought that 3 acres was “the woods.” We live on 40 acres and are still intensely careful about backstops, etc. when we are shooting. Sadly, some folks don’t have neighbors with that much sense.
December 24th, 2015 at 1:18 pm
It’s a bogus argument. I live in Knox County, outside city limits. My condo is surrounded by houses. If I discharged a firearm in my yard I would be arrested and charged with reckless endangerment. She is a PSH type.
December 24th, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Here in Texas, state law says you need 100 acres out in a county to shoot on your property.
Legally, anyway.
When I lived in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore, holidays were celebrated with gunfire shot from the front porches or alleys nearby, and the power company lineman down the block had an impressive collection of cartridge cases he’d collected while fixing shot up transformers & insulators. I was glad for the thick brick walls of our 1920s row house.
Different places, different mores. When in Rome…
December 28th, 2015 at 10:04 pm
Best example of “feel unsafe” that I’ve seen, Charles Blow of the New York Times whining, effeminately, about his right to “feel safe”. Sorry, Charles, but that’s also known as your right to keep and bear arms. Don’t want to? Cry, whine, and plead with your attackers, but don’t try to disarm me. Got that?
December 28th, 2015 at 10:09 pm
Charles Blow, tough guy in print, Commandante de las Palabras, but put him on video, and suddenly, he’s a girl. A little, whining girl, whining against the Second Amendment, and the man disappears, and is replaced, with silence.