Well gall dang it! Don’t see nuthin heah some double ‘O’ buck can’t fix right up. Just tell them commies from Washington you spotted Obama and Hillary walking around sayin’ they was lookin’ for Hunter and Joe. Hellfire tarnation, told them to git and set the dogs on them. They’s was a hightailing it, headed godless north last time we eyed them.
Ah, but the shooters likely own cars, so they don’t think cars should be targets. It’s amazing how logic flies out the window when you ever point out problems with automobile use. Those things are out of bounds.
It’s stories like these that should remind us of the problems with governing, and that we should stop electing clowns. (And that’s a truly bipartisan statement btw, so guys can not react like I’m picking on their sides).
“Big Medevac demanding more money. I’d rather die than pay those guys prices. Healthcare is a right!”
Huh?
The problem is the criminal mentality not use of airport land.
When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.
Such as the gangsters in Surrey BC, the bank robbers in Saanich BC (well armed with bullet-resistant vests which are illegal for civilians to own, and with explosives).
With a range of weapons in use in Canada - machettes the latest used to threaten and maim innocents. On top of broken bottles, knives, baseball bats (some with sharp things embedded in them), etc.)
Need aircraft with a bomb bay full of garbage and detectors of gun shots (as US military has), to dump garbage on perps. :-o)
Bad education system and dumb voters who elect anti-police officials.
A brother said ‘Common sense isn’t.’ but later lost any he had, became toady for hot head wife who makes vicious false allegations and tries to control people on religious grounds.
Huh? Relevance?
Another news source has greater detail about the incident. My assumption was the plane was shot while in the air but it was actually in a hangar when hit:
“The pilot said he was standing in the hanger at Hawkins Field on the phone when he heard a loud ping. As he checked out the plane, he found a bullet hole in what’s known as the upper cowling. After removing that piece, they found the bullet also struck a part of the engine.”
www.wapt.com/article/medical-transport-plane-grounded-after-it-was-shot-at-hawkins-field/40451177#
Now the questions really begin - was it a stray shot? Or was someone aiming at the plane? Or were they aiming at something (or someone) else and hit the plane instead?
Wow! Bein’ a city boy raised in NYC, I can see shooting at aircraft in KLGA, KJFK, and Newark based on every illegal weapon owned by criminals but it just doesn’t happen. A few years ago when drones were the new play thing, the morons deliberately flew them into final approaches as flight crews identified them just before landing. The radio control groups probably reached out to everyone in the drone community to stop the stupidity resulting in less sightings. Some drone fliers are cognizant since rules mandated programmed no fly zones into embedded chips to prevent flight. No more drone interference at the three major airports in NYC.
Shooting at aircraft may be another example of redneck ignorance.
It’s not redneck; that group largely moved out of Jackson long ago. Jackson turned very, very dark years ago, and the majority residents’ mental capacity to reason has been dropping like a rock. I’d bet the shooter held his/her (likely his) firearm sideways when firing - they look cool that way.
I don’t buy it. That conclusion sounds like an apologist fantasy on the part of the councilman. It’s rare but sport shooting at aircraft is not new and I’m not surprised by the looks of the hell hole around the airport.
But if a person has little enough respect for the law that they would shoot at someone, what makes anyone think they would give a rat’s @$$ whether the gun they do it with is legal, or was acquired in a legal manor?
Hey, I like that one!
The simple solution for this kind of thing is to arm the tower controllers, the airport operations employees and the FBO employees. Also all airplanes should carry armed guards and the planes should be retro-fitted with armor plating.
The inconvenient fact that the gun lobby doesn’t want to acknowledge. No of guns per per 100 persons
US = 120
Canada = 30
Percent of crimes involving guns
US = 8 %
Canada = 2.5 %
Canada has its share of people suffering from serious mental health issues and delusional people who have gone down the rabbit hole of the social media conspiracy networks that lead to bizarre outcomes like this aircraft shooting.
The difference is they generally don’t have an unfettered access to firearms. As a Canadian I am grateful for that.
You must be a complete idiot or ideologue if you believe the BS you are spouting about gun control. Not just anyone can buy a gun. There ARE already background checks, absolutely none of which can predict if a person will shoot at a plane. Prosecution of crimes is the deterrent to criminal acts. Taking away rights for things people Might do is tyrannical. FFS.
I’ve been a gun owner for sixty years and live in the woods in the South. We cull our deer population with rifle and bow. We eat well.
You know who doesn’t have this sort of problem with firearms? Every other first-world nation on the planet, by a huge margin. There, you can still buy and use a firearm for hunting and sport after satisfying substantial training and competency requirements. Then there are rules about where you can use it, recurrent training, who you can sell it to, and so forth.
Sort of like the federal rules we have about owning and using an airplane, actually. In the US, in general, the less likely the aircraft is to kill someone else, the easier it is to acquire and use. Good luck getting someone to sell you a Warthog with only 50 hrs. in your logbook, but if you aren’t a felon you can by a semi-automatic AR-15 (or a fully-automatic one, if you know a friend of a friend).
Now compare the non-participant fatality rate of aircraft vs. firearms and tell me, with a straight face, that we don’t need similar control of guns.
Image if every firearm was required to have an un-hackable chip in it that broadcast its serial number wherever it went. If it went into a liquor store at the same time as a robbery occurred, it wouldn’t be hard to find. And god help the owner if it penetrated the Automatic Detection System / Broadcast veil around a school …
Now they will have to add a remark to the airport directory, “GUNFIRE ON & INVOF ARPT.”