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Even in very gun friendly areas ranges are always few, far between and often with years long wait lists for membership. Private property is often the only option, but it needs to be done safely. It sounds like every one of his neighbors had backstops for their home ranges, this dude was just a moron.

System works as designed. The second amendment fuckwits never cared about freedom and democracy at all.

Who is protecting your democracy?

Well obviously Dale, the overweight guy who wants nothing more than owing guns and Nazis memorabilia

That's exactly the point. Those if us that want gun control don't want to rip them from the hands of responsible gun-owners.

We want common-sense laws that let us research and prevent gun violence. We want to keep guns out of the hands of those too young to understand them, criminals, abusers, stalkers, and the mentally-ill. We want people to have to understand how to safely operate them before purchasing guns, going hunting, or obtaining a concealed-carry permit. We want to limit gun crimes and school shootings. 

But Republicans, the NRA, and gun lobbies oppose all of these popular positions most Americans agree on, even though it results in more gun deaths. There's no compromising with fundamentalists...

People in my neck of the woods talk about fire arms the way I talk about video games or TV shows. They sound like recreation rather than self defense. I don’t know if knowledge is the only factor; a sense of seriousness about firearms seems to be lacking.

It’s insane to me how many people think that taking guns away will actually increase the violence.. like the people that would normally shoot up a place would suddenly become experts at building bombs and take out WAY more people.. when the reality is that those people would probably be more likely to blow themselves up trying to build a bomb.. guns are so simple to kill with, a toddler could do it. Building a bomb or something equivalent is much harder than pulling a trigger.

A "backstop" is not a shooting range...

It's usually just a pile of dirt.

It's wild for a bunch of people in a neighborhood to all be doing this, because even if the first couple are kind of safe about it, every idiot starts thinking jt's safe to just shoot at a can or anything. All they know is they hear gunshots

This is Oklahoma.

Yeah, this happened literally 4 houses down from me. We all shoot guns, but we have targets, and those that dont go down to the bridge and fire into the creek bank. This whole thing is because he was lazy/stupid.

My wife worked with someone that didn't know that bullets come down after you shoot them in the air. People are fucking stupid.

It’s genuinely wild to me that Americans let just anyone have the capability to do that.

Coworker of mine was shot through her apartment floor (accidental discharge). She almost died.

While in military school after boot camp, I was stuck in the barracks because our Chief was extremely strict about letting us use our evening time how we’d like. While mopping the same spot for the 4th hour, I get a call from my wife advising that she’s really scared. A gun had just discharged from the neighbors house, went through our wall, got lodged in our dresser about 2” from my 1.5 year old daughter’s leg. I went to my chief and other instructors, asking to be let out so I can comfort my family. They said no, there’s nothing I can do if I leave and my family can drive to a motel if they feel unsafe.

Exactly! I don't want to take away your guns. I want fuckheads like these to not be able to buy them in the first place.

For what it's worth, it's illegal in the USA too. Obviously that didn't stop this moron.

You right, but consider this. You can't get plea deals without inflated charges. The pre-meditation could be that "he went into the house". He had the game on. He didn't NEED to be inside, he chose to go inside. If he was carrying a gun while he went inside AND anticipated an altercation, then you can make the argument, however poorly cobbled together, that he had thought this shit through.

"But, there's no plea deal for a man who died by suicide!" You're right. But it's a nice way to slide some precedent through because who is going to defend this asshole? Nobody.

Now, the next time someone does something similar and lives, you got that sweet murder 1 baybeee! They went into somewhere they didn't need to be, knowing that it would provoke an altercation, and they were carrying their firearm with intent to use it when the situation escalated (State of Oklahoma v. Cody Wayne Adams). Hell, this citation can be scraped by some language learning model and appear down the road to support this scenario when an overworked intern slaps together a brief for an attorney who is focused on numbers.

It doesn't have to be a good argument. It just has to be AN argument.

1st degree doesn't mean premeditated, it means to the highest degree. A murder charge typically implies premeditation whereas manslaughter implies recklessness.

1st degree manslaughter sounds right to me, killing someone accidentally through extreme recklessness in this case.