Fun With Guns: I Thought You Were A Raccoon Edition
There’s a city in Virginia that allows people to shoot “varmints.” within the city limits.
I would not want to live there. And here’s why.
I man thought he saw a rabid raccoon so he shot it. Except it wasn’t a raccoon. It was his neighbor, why may have been foaming at the mouth and plenty hairy, I dunno, but I suspect that at the very least, she was larger than a raccoon.
The neighbor was held overnight for observation at the local hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries. She reportedly went outside to check on her children when she heard gun shots and was struck by one of the bullets.
He was charged with a class 6 felony and is due to be sentenced in September.
A class 6 felony is the lowest ranking felony offense potentially punishable by imprisonment of one to five years and a possible maximum fine of $2,500, according to the Code of Virginia.
Bet he won’t be shooting any raccoons for a while.
“Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! Bam!!! Oops sorry, ma’am. Thought I saw a raccoon.” (>.<)
1The problem with bullets is that they keep going in the direction the firearm’s muzzle happens to be pointed at the time that the weapon discharges. This is why police are trained to look not only at the target, but what is behind it.
2Guns don’t kill-it is them stoopid bullets that kill.
3Can they shoot two legged varmints? I have some nominations.
4Too bad that when the woman was admitted for observation, that the nut who shot her wasn’t also admitted for mental health observation.
5I should add that we get bears in Northern Virginia. I won’t be wearing my big black coat for a while.
6Well, if they don’t change the laws, or lower the charges,at least this dumbass won’t be able to own a gun again.
7I can hear wingnuts and NRA saying they are for personal responsibility. This woman is responsible for getting in the way of her neighbor’s 2nd amendment rights.
8No matter how drunk, blind, stupid, or stupid blind drunk you were, as long as the crime involved shooting a gun at anything you should never have shot, you won’t have to give up much time or money. This is Amurrica.
9Thank God he didn’t hit the children. He can take his 2nd
10Amendment rights and go straight to jail. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. Instead, fork over $2500. You can bet he’s a Trumpite.
Yet another RWNJ genius gun mishandling Tea Party numbnutz.
He’ll still vote in November, like almost 100% of them. How many Democrats (or ‘should be’ Dems) WON’T???
11Too bad there’s not a right to shoot varmints in DC.
12This nut job probably Will own a gun again. He’ll just buy it, and likely several more, at those background check-less gun shows. They are the place where the guy who shoots his wife and children, then suicides, buys his guns. Thanks to snacilbupeR and the f**king NRA.
13e platypus onion That’s exactly what the NRA said with the first shooting of this type I heard about: a woman in Maine was hanging out clothes on the line in her own yard, and was killed by a hunter. The NRA’s comment was it was hunting season and people should be careful. Not one word about teh hunter being careful. In Virginia, a woman was killed in her own driveway in a subdivision by someone hunting in an apple orchard that bordered the subdivision. Again, the NRA said the woman was responsible (she walked out to get in her car to go to work.)
14during the civil war, the northwest panhandle of VA broke away from the rest of the state, it’s known as WV. sadly, the southwestern part of VA stayed put, and so we have maroons like this, in the Orange-Culpeper area (and sometimes even closer to my home) being allowed to discharge firearms in residential areas. lucky for him he only wounded her, they’re still trying to find the right combination of chemicals, to execute people with here, who knows what they’d stick in him.
15I would not be surprised if we hear of a raccoon in Virginia shooting back someday.
16cpinva, why don’t they just shoot ’em?
17I also live in northern Virginia smack next to one of the largest military reservations in the country. The county I live in FORBIDS the discharge of firearms in the local woods, no matter that type of animal population. Here is the Catch 22 that actually works for us: so damn much of the “local woods” are federal lands and you do not want to run afoul of them feds. You take your chances even shooting at something on your own land. A Northern Virginia resident many years ago tried to clear off an immense flock of crows that started colonizing in his back yard. He shot several of them and of course missed a number of others. One of those missed shots crossed a multi-lane highway, went through a plate glass window in an office building and permanently crippled the guy working peacefully at his desk. Now, about Culpeper spelled with only two, not three, p’s: for decades it was an out of the way isolated country town with a full range of wildlife from the forests and even the mountains. It is now a bedroom community of D.C. They have waited too freaking damn long to upgrade their local laws and will someday have to pay for it through every pore of their political body before they learn their lesson. I was amazed that this guy is getting the full judicial treatment instead of being just waved off by local law enforcement like so many other such cases around the country.
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