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    • Cottonwood
        June 13, 2010 at 3:11 pm
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        #3324

        California man convicted of using crossbow to randomly kill man; prosecutor called it bravado

        http://www.latimes.com/sns-ap-us-crossbow-killing,0,855521.story

        LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — An ex-convict has been found guilty of using a crossbow to kill a man in what a prosecutor said was a random attack intended to show his stepdaughter he was someone not to be messed with.

        A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated three hours Monday before convicting 39-year-old Arseller Curtis Scott of killing 62-year-old Angel Martinez in March 2008, whose body was found in Lancaster with an arrow sticking out of the chest.

        Martinez was a retired Edwards Air Force Base employee who was out for a late-night walk when he was struck in the middle of an intersection.

      • heydeerman
          June 13, 2010 at 4:03 pm
          Post count: 45
          #18663

          In Columbus, Ohio several years ago in a fit of road rage a guy pulled a crossbow out of his trunk and shot a guy in the chest and killed him.

        • Chris Shelton
            June 17, 2010 at 3:05 pm
            Post count: 679
            #23073

            I heard about a guy holding up a bank with a compound a year or so ago!!!

            May I just point out that it is never the weapons, just the user. . .

          • Patrick
            Member
              June 17, 2010 at 10:34 pm
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              #23432

              I guess I’m slow. What’s the point?

            • Hiram
                June 18, 2010 at 12:11 am
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                #23512

                The point is that Archery equipment can be used improperly, as well as appropriately.:)

              • Patrick
                Member
                  June 18, 2010 at 2:37 am
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                  #23641

                  Hiram wrote: The point is that Archery equipment can be used improperly, as well as appropriately.:)

                  Makes sense.

                • MontanaFord
                    June 18, 2010 at 3:15 am
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                    #23677

                    Which is which? LOL. I’m kidding!!

                  • Hiram
                      June 18, 2010 at 4:20 am
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                      #23729

                      Hey Montana! LOL:D

                    • MontanaFord
                        June 18, 2010 at 1:59 pm
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                        #24173

                        I couldn’t fathom going out and just killing somebody just for the hey of it. If it was them or me, that would be one thing. But knowing the effective range of the bows we shoot, knowing you’re that close to the person…that would just be wrong on so many levels. Not to mention the fact that any court would immediately determine that you had every intention of killing simply BECAUSE you got that close before releasing the arrow. Nope, can’t see how a person could just go out and kill somebody. Even the guys that were sniping people back east a few years back. How could they sit back, pick a target and pull the trigger so easily? I don’t understand it, and I guess I never will.

                        Michael.

                      • Patrick
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                          June 18, 2010 at 2:58 pm
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                          #24208

                          MontanaFord wrote: I couldn’t fathom going out and just killing somebody just for the hey of it. If it was them or me, that would be one thing. But knowing the effective range of the bows we shoot, knowing you’re that close to the person…that would just be wrong on so many levels. Not to mention the fact that any court would immediately determine that you had every intention of killing simply BECAUSE you got that close before releasing the arrow. Nope, can’t see how a person could just go out and kill somebody. Even the guys that were sniping people back east a few years back. How could they sit back, pick a target and pull the trigger so easily? I don’t understand it, and I guess I never will.

                          Michael.

                          If you did understand, I’d be concerned!! :shock::lol:

                        • Chris Shelton
                            June 18, 2010 at 3:59 pm
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                            #24264

                            Patrick wrote: If you did understand, I’d be concerned!! :shock::lol:

                            I don’t think any of us ever will understand that type. If you guys think that this kinda stuff will demolish any chance of these weapons being around think again . . . those snippers here in MD a couple of years ago were using an AR 223 bushmaster . . . more popular for varmint hunting than ever before! Just bad press for the wheelie bow types, lets us slide under the radar, lol

                          • Hiram
                              June 19, 2010 at 5:13 am
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                              #24859

                              Tools are sometimes confused with intent and culpability.
                              Fire is either good or bad depending upon it’s application.
                              The same is true of tools.
                              Some fools use tools improperly!:(

                            • William Warren
                              Member
                                June 19, 2010 at 6:53 pm
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                                #25417

                                I guess you could say -“(insert weapon here)don’t kill people. People kill people.”

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