Exactly! I’m like man, Alec, are you shocked the gun went off? Do you feel terrible about what happened? Shouldn’t you be expressing your thoughts and emotions for her and her family every time you open your mouth?
Instead we get “she killed herself!!” attitude. Jeez.
I got shot in the head once by a friend with a BB gun. Very close range. His reaction, because he thought it wasn’t loaded(aired up) was instant regret. Was “on me” physically making sure I was ok. And was emotionally disturbed for quite some time after that.
If you asked him today, years later, his reaction is the same. “OMG I didn’t know it was loaded! That scared the f&$@ outta me. I could’ve blinded him. Unreal. Hate BB guns.”
Alec my brother, where is your heartfelt emotion for her? He needs some human training, for caring.
Lmfao! You got shot in the head with a bb gun? Or an air rifle?
Because there are some pretty damn powerful air rifles out there! I used to snipe pigeons off of the neighbors roofs when I was like 11. Those things are strong! AND they use lead pellets.
If it's the latter, you're lucky you didn't get lead poisoning and die!
Bahhhh, we used to have "one-pump" wars as kids. it was the original paint ball. Getting beaned with a baseball is is worse than a one pump bb that won't even break the skin...
I grew up in a half and half suburb. Half rural, half urban. Nice urban suburb looking from the street side but each property had a half-acre back yard. And there was lots of roaming around scrub areas around and about.
We had bb gun wars. We'd collect eggs, let them go bad, and use them as hand grenades too.
When one of the moms found out we were shooting at each other with intent, the phone calls started.
The final ruling was, it's ok but we had to wear our father's eye protection available in every backyard shop.
You would chuck baseballs at each other? Lol I HATE flying projectiles. Thats why I could never do sports involving small, fast flying projectiles growing up.
Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Hockey... all scared the shit out of me. I was much more comfortable doing Rugby, wrestling and club jiu jitsu.
My best score was when an opponent climbed into one if those prefab "tree" houses on legs, closed the lower half of the door and sat back in the dark to snipe... So I lofted one high through the doorway and was rewarded with a howl as I pegged him in the tender flesh of his inner trigger forearm.. So much for the SnipersHide...
The difference is between a spring powered (Red Ryder) and the air pump (Benjamin 22 caliber) or the Co2 gas powered. Most “BB” guns are spring powered.
My brother and I got air rifles one Christmas. They had a bar across the muzzle so you couldn't shoot any projectiles (so they thought). We quickly discovered that jamming them into mud or soft dirt made a really nice thing to shoot. Dirt bombs.
A BB gun. The one that shoots the little metal round bb’s(bullets). I guess technically it’s a air rifle too because it was supposed to be pumped up around 10 times. They had that airbag in them. Nowadays they have those crack barrel air up style. They seem quite a bit more powerful than what we had. Although we’ve shot hundreds of birds with that pump up style, back in the day.
Have a friend who got shot in the eye with a BB gun. His older brother shot him by accident. Didn't know it was loaded. Dudes blind in that eye now. He nicknamed himself Popeye, because he has a squint in that eye now, too.
His brother still hasn't forgiven himself for that accident. And that happened in the mid 80's.
Got them for our kids in the early eighties. Careless parenting or life lessons for the children? You decide. My children still talk about all the cool, dangerous things they played with.
"She kept calling me a shitty actor. I told her if she kept going on like that I would have no choice. I said, "if you want lead then keep talking." And she did. So you see, she may as well have pulled the trigger herself.
Exactly! I’m like man, Alec, are you shocked the gun went off? Do you feel terrible about what happened? Shouldn’t you be expressing your thoughts and emotions for her and her family every time you open your mouth?
Instead we get “she killed herself!!” attitude. Jeez.
I got shot in the head once by a friend with a BB gun. Very close range. His reaction, because he thought it wasn’t loaded(aired up) was instant regret. Was “on me” physically making sure I was ok. And was emotionally disturbed for quite some time after that. If you asked him today, years later, his reaction is the same. “OMG I didn’t know it was loaded! That scared the f&$@ outta me. I could’ve blinded him. Unreal. Hate BB guns.”
Alec my brother, where is your heartfelt emotion for her? He needs some human training, for caring.
Lmfao! You got shot in the head with a bb gun? Or an air rifle?
Because there are some pretty damn powerful air rifles out there! I used to snipe pigeons off of the neighbors roofs when I was like 11. Those things are strong! AND they use lead pellets.
If it's the latter, you're lucky you didn't get lead poisoning and die!
Bahhhh, we used to have "one-pump" wars as kids. it was the original paint ball. Getting beaned with a baseball is is worse than a one pump bb that won't even break the skin...
Yeah, I did, too. Lucky we weren't blinded.
"You'll shoot your eye out kid" comes to mind.
I grew up in a half and half suburb. Half rural, half urban. Nice urban suburb looking from the street side but each property had a half-acre back yard. And there was lots of roaming around scrub areas around and about.
We had bb gun wars. We'd collect eggs, let them go bad, and use them as hand grenades too.
When one of the moms found out we were shooting at each other with intent, the phone calls started.
The final ruling was, it's ok but we had to wear our father's eye protection available in every backyard shop.
It is a miracle we survived childhood !
You would chuck baseballs at each other? Lol I HATE flying projectiles. Thats why I could never do sports involving small, fast flying projectiles growing up.
Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Hockey... all scared the shit out of me. I was much more comfortable doing Rugby, wrestling and club jiu jitsu.
My best score was when an opponent climbed into one if those prefab "tree" houses on legs, closed the lower half of the door and sat back in the dark to snipe... So I lofted one high through the doorway and was rewarded with a howl as I pegged him in the tender flesh of his inner trigger forearm.. So much for the SnipersHide...
The difference is between a spring powered (Red Ryder) and the air pump (Benjamin 22 caliber) or the Co2 gas powered. Most “BB” guns are spring powered.
Yes I agree.
My brother and I got air rifles one Christmas. They had a bar across the muzzle so you couldn't shoot any projectiles (so they thought). We quickly discovered that jamming them into mud or soft dirt made a really nice thing to shoot. Dirt bombs.
A BB gun. The one that shoots the little metal round bb’s(bullets). I guess technically it’s a air rifle too because it was supposed to be pumped up around 10 times. They had that airbag in them. Nowadays they have those crack barrel air up style. They seem quite a bit more powerful than what we had. Although we’ve shot hundreds of birds with that pump up style, back in the day.
Have a friend who got shot in the eye with a BB gun. His older brother shot him by accident. Didn't know it was loaded. Dudes blind in that eye now. He nicknamed himself Popeye, because he has a squint in that eye now, too.
His brother still hasn't forgiven himself for that accident. And that happened in the mid 80's.
We had jarts in the 70 s
Got them for our kids in the early eighties. Careless parenting or life lessons for the children? You decide. My children still talk about all the cool, dangerous things they played with.
I had revolvers w read bullets full plastic jacket you put those round caps on bullets and they shot I was four
"She kept calling me a shitty actor. I told her if she kept going on like that I would have no choice. I said, "if you want lead then keep talking." And she did. So you see, she may as well have pulled the trigger herself.