Teen killed by Crosman Nitro, shot to the heart

[Bryan Heimann]

It's tragic.  I feel sorry for that kid's family, and I feel sorry for the kid that shot him.  Even though it was a very dumb idea, I bet none of them would have been screwing around like that if they had the proper respect for it.   Airguns are definitely not toys, they deserve the same respect as firearms.  That story reminds me of getting heckled by a buddy because I refused to shoot a can off his head with a crosman 760.  I could just imagine him doing the death dance when I pull the shot and nail him in the eye.  He laughed at me and it took him a while to get off it, we were bored and the catfish weren't biting.  But in the end he told me that he respected how much respect I had for my $25 pellet gun, lol.  If he only knew

[TOM aka critter99]

reminds me of a couple years ago when a very young kid found a handgun at home in a laundry basket took it to school and shot a little girl

The kid was living with a crack addicted Mom in a basically a crack house and when he found an illegal gun and used it they all piled on about the "bad Gun"

nobody asked why he was living with a crack addict in a crack house???

[mudmobster]

they always wnat to blame the gun, but a gun has never killed anyone.it is always a stupid person somewhere in the chain.

[blind dog]

...The kid was living with a crack addicted Mom in a basically a crack house and when he found an illegal gun and used it they all piled on about the "bad Gun"

nobody asked why he was living with a crack addict in a crack house???

What we need is crack control...oh wait...we already have that and it doesn't work, either. :lol:

[Paul68]

Didn't see enough mentioned about mixing alcohol and dangerous toys, but didn't see a lot of kneejerk reaction to guns either. The officer did say AG's should be treated the same as a firearm, which we all already agree with.