re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

the range aspect is also a huge consideration, especially when a bullet can travel miles.

case in point:

Amish man accidentally killed girl in horse-drawn-buggy with stray gunshot, will serve 30 days in jail

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio Amish man will serve 30 days in jail for firing a bullet into the air that inadvertently killed a 15-year-old girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

As part of an agreement with prosecutors, 28-year-old Marion Yoder pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor count of negligent homicide, said Steve Knowling, the prosecutor for Holmes County in northern Ohio.

A judge sentenced Yoder to the maximum 180 days in the county jail, but suspended all but 30 days of the term. Yoder will be on probation for three years and will have to go back to jail for the full term if he violates it.