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People take potshots at trains in the Midwest and West all the time. Bored teenagers with .22 rifles, mostly.
by hudibras 8y ago
People take potshots at trains in the Midwest and West all the time. Bored teenagers with .22 rifles, mostly.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoPassenger trains? If so, does this happen as often for highways? If not, why not?
- microcolonel 8y agoVariation on the Michigan pastime of dropping heavy objects from motorway overpasses so that they hit motorists' windshields.
- jimjimjim 8y agoarrest them. simple. discharging a firearm at people.
- simonh 8y agoHow about just thinking about the problem blew for just one second. Were putting you in charge of arresting children pot shooting trains in the Midwest along about a hundred thousand miles of rural train track. You need to come up with a system for reliably detecting hits on any part of any train (or they will aim for areas hard to detect), anywhere on a journey and immediately notifying nearby law enforcers to converge on the location before the miscreants can get away from the area. Oh, and the system has to be simple (a criterion you set for yourself), and has to be able to distinguish hits from gravel kicked up by other passing trans or the train itself. I’m sure you worked all that out before posting and you think it’s obvious, but please enlighten those of us not as bright.
- jimjimjim 8y agoSure any problem with vandalism and damaging other peoples property is generally tricky to resolve, but why are people with guns shooting at things that don't belong to them? Are you in favor of that behavior, indifferent to it or sadly resigned to it?
- megablast 8y agoHe sounds like a realist.
- simonh 8y agoI’m against it of course, but realistically allowing children or anyone else to have unsupervised access to guns has a cost. It’s not a simple problem. It’s n the cite to if HN I’m against lazy posts that don’t add to the discussion.
- msl 8y ago> [...] allowing children [...] to have unsupervised access to guns has a cost. It’s not a simple problem. Does everyone else feel like the quoted statement is a perfectly normal thing to say? I am asking because I sure do not. The world is full of complex problems with no simple answers, but this one, in my opinion, is not one of them.
- simonh 8y agoWhich answer are you referring to? I didn’t offer one. As it happens I’m for very restrictive gun laws, such as the ones in the UK where I live.
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- eesmith 8y agoA bored teen in the Midwest with a .22 took out a window in my car. Yet we don't require car windows to be able to withstand a .22.