A little perspective on range danger.

[CouchOperator]

I misread the title as Stranger Danger

[Jimi Jah]

I have two major hobbies the past ten years - scuba & free diving and guns.

While the recent death is tragic, it's also an anomaly. While the current fashion is to magnify guns dangers, an incident like last weeks event became major news here on our board. How many accidents at ranges in SoCal have resulted in fatalities in the past ten years?? I can remember one - last Saturday

Now think about scuba diving. Seems somewhat safe. It isn't. I'm recent years there have been at least ten fatalities, and there are a heck of a lot LESS people scuba diving than shooting at ranges.

Some of the cruelest ways to die are diving. How about being left at bird rock by the dive boat captain only to be swept away to never be seen again? Happened in 2015 to a mom with three kids.

Or would you prefer to get stuck in a cave and run out of air? Or strangled by an anchor chain? Maybe you prefer death by shark? Or by heart attack struggling to reach shore in big surf!!!

Shallow water blackout is pretty painless too. Kinda like dying in your sleep.

All of these have occurred in local waters (except the shark attack) within the past five or so years.

If you get life insurance no one is going to ask you about guns, but they'll ask you about scuba diving.

So let's remember guns can be dangerous, but certainly not as dangerous as many many other sports. My heart goes out to our fellow gunner. Mine also goes out to the mom I used to dive with on occasion abandoned at sea to suffer a death nightmares are made of. Her body was never found....

Anyone for shooting guns while scuba diving?

The obvious solution is for our next Governor to make all that stuff illegal, for the children.

[bubbapug1]

The obvious solution is for our next Governor to make all that stuff illegal, for the children.

While you may be joking I can assure you Laguna beach has already moved in that direction.

There is risk with interfacing with nature. There are however bigger risks in sitting on ones butt at home watching TV. The ones associated with watching TV include type 2 diabetes and heart attacks.

[Spyder]

Yea. Don't give them more ideas.