Girl Dies from BB Gun

[jimbob86]

In my youth I decimated populations of English sparrows and starlings throughout my (and surrounding) neighborhoods and never failed to realize that cedar waxwings, robins, finch's, blue birds, woodpeckers, nighthawks, swallows, and more, were valuable species not to be harmed.

Me too, only woodpeckers were also on the target list: we did not have extra money to be patching holes in the house or outbuildings.......

When we lived on the farm, we would not have dreamed of pointing even a BB gun at anything that we did not intend to shoot ...... once we moved to town, and both mom and dad worked all the time, we fell in with other unsupervised kids ....... bad things happen when you let them.

This IS a training issue, and these kids lacked training.

[chucknbach]

First it starts as shooting birds, then torturing 4 legged animals, and just escalates from there.

OK, I'll call it. BS! It's kinda like smoke some pot and you'll end up a crack addict.

That is a sad and tragic story. It sounds as though they where shooting pellet rifles using bbs in them.

Pellet rifles are very deadly, the parents should be held accountable.

I guess the death of a child is not enough for you? Thinking jail time for the parents as well?

Left wing going to eat this up

Looks like you already have!