• @CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
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    116 months ago

    How about you don’t let the kid play anywhere near a shooting range let alone leave the possibility for them to drive right onto it with an ATV. It sounds more like reckless manslaughter rather than an accident to me

    • Ghostalmedia
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      466 months ago

      It wasn’t a shooting range. That part of Arizona is pretty rural, and it looks like they rolled onto some land where people were doing target practice. Not uncommon for a rural community.

    • @assembly@lemmy.world
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      116 months ago

      It’s pretty common in AZ that off-road trails where you take vehicles double as target practice areas. On the side of a trail will be an area with backstops (basically the side of a mountain or just dirt hills) where people setup targets and shoot. The desert is a big place out there but there are also a lot of random dirt bikes and ATVs around. Supposed to be the responsibility of the people doing target shooting to watch out for people.

        • @assembly@lemmy.world
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          36 months ago

          As an off road enthusiast, it is always super sketchy how there are random folks with guns shooting as I pass by. They have their backs to the trails so are shooting away but still, you can sometimes spot them with a case of beer lining up their empties. Ain’t no one going to say anything to them so I imagine that is a reason it is so prolific.

        • @Pat_Riot
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          16 months ago

          Tell us you live in the city without saying that you live in the city. Hell, there’s Wildlife Management land here in Georgia specifically laid out as trails with ranges set up netx to them.