A nearby school has just finished construction and is planning to open next week. However, it’s already been struck multiple times by bullets escaping a shooting range a mile or so away. They’ve released notices telling people to avoid one side of the building due to the stray bullets and adjusted activities to the late evening when the range is closed.
After asking the range to improve it’s quality so that this doesn’t happen, the shooting range apparently told them to pound sand. Now there’s a big lawsuit trying to force this shooting range to actually stop the bullets being fired so they don’t kill children because they refuse to do anything.
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The gun range was there first. It was up to the city planners not to put a fucking middle school in the firing line of a gun range.
And the gun range is perfectly free to remain there and keep operating. This isn’t some sort of nuisance like noise, it’s a potential case of manslaughter. Owning land and operating a business there doesn’t entitle you to externalize the risk of death to people on land you don’t even own. If things outside the range are getting shot as anything more than a freak occurrence, that’s a failure of the business to plan for what is then clearly a very predictable outcome. I don’t give a shit if beyond the range is untamed wilds, a conference of CEOs, a school, a hospital, whatever. None of that changes the fact you don’t have the right to pepper the land beyond yours with lead.
My god, the point is protecting kids not fucking litigation - pull your head out of your ass and think for a second.
Yeah, no shit, that’s why I didn’t say anything at all about litigation and only commented on how the firing range needs to ensure bullets stop inside their land. If you wanna give me grief for my comments, at least bitch about the things I actually said.
So someone shoots high and hits a kid at the school, congratulations your pedantry has resulted in a child being hit.
Look, if you can’t keep the bullets inside your land, you either should have built bigger safety measures or you should have bought more land downrange so anything that goes over still lands on your property. You as the business owner and land owner are allowing people to fire weapons too powerful for the size of and safety measures on your land. Anything else renders land you don’t own completely unusable to its rightful owners for reasonable fear of death.
In this case, since the school is already there and they obviously can’t buy the land anymore, if they can’t fix it with safety measures, they shouldn’t be allowing any guns that can reach that far. Sucks for them as a business owner, but sometimes, such is the cost of not being proactive about the problems you and your business are causing. That’s them facing consequences for inadequate safety measures, not because of what particular type of building got built beyond the border. I don’t give a shit if it’s Peter Thiel’s new house, you have no legal or moral right to endanger people on land you don’t control so you can profit off your business.