Saturday, March 17, 2012

Mission Del Lago Golf Course Shut Down

image borrowed from Daisy



My SA reports on another incident at the municipal golf course.

Nine days after a golfer was hit by a stray gunshot while playing Mission Del Lago municipal golf course on the South Side, officials decided to shut down the popular facility Tuesday after reports of a another bullet whizzing over the heads of players.
Last week I suggested a solution, half jokingly. Now maybe we should take it seriously. It seems a shame to shut the golf course, that's like blaming the victims, isn't it?

I've got a new idea. Anytime one of these stray bullets hits somebody's house or lands in their back yard, or especially when one strikes a person, there's an immediate gun-free zone declared, let's say for a one-mile radius. With satellite imagery, they could easily do the mapping. Additional offences would result in permanent loss of gun rights.

It's interesting the gun rights folks are always talking about "blaming the victim" when we propose laws which would inconvenience them the tiniest bit. But when they're the ones at fault, it's perfectly OK to punish the golfers.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

5 comments:

  1. Maybe he don't like golfers like myself. I wouldn't shoot any though.

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  2. Mikeb, what you propose here is called collective punishment. Denying gun rights to everyone in a somewhat more than three square mile area because of the actions of probably one person is ridiculous.

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  3. Greg Camp op(wh)ines:

    "Mikeb, what you propose here is called collective punishment. Denying gun rights to everyone in a somewhat more than three square mile area because of the actions of probably one person is ridiculous."



    Having taken to the time to googlemap the distance between the firing range and the golf course I see that the golf course is something like a mile from the firing range. My poor math skills aside, it would appear that the functional area of reference for denying people's right to be a fucking moron wit teh gunz is more like a 6 sq mile area.

    What is not mentioned in any of the reports I read is that there is an airport located between the golf course and the firing range. Last year it averaged about 8 flights a day. Take-offs and landings are done within a mile of the rifle range. We should probably shut the airport down, too.

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    1. Then the rounds likely aren't coming from the shooting range.

      Mikeb proposed a gun exclusion zone within a one mile radius of any incident like this. For your edification, the area of a circle is pi times the square of the radius. That makes approximately 3.141592653589793238462624483. . . square miles.

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    2. "Then the rounds likely aren't coming from the shooting range."

      Thanks Mr. Ballisticsexpert. Now explain that fucking ridiculous comment.

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