(November 18, 2009 at 7:39 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: *bang* is a sound. *shoots* is shooting someone. I never meant to suggest that *bang* happens after the fact, although the time taken for the sound to reach an observers ear may indeed follow much later than the gun firing and the recipient being shot.
If you don't aim, brace or pull the trigger then what is 'shooting' with a twelve bore? Perhaps you imagined my twelve bore as mind activated??
Lol ^_^ The others got the thread back on track ^_^ And here I am, continuing my weird little discussion with fr0d0
All that is required to "shoot" is to project either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion.
So say that a gun discharges evidently by itself, and the projectile hit you. Wouldn't you say you just got shot? Therefore, aiming is not required to shoot; bracing ones' self for the shot is not required to shoot; and if the gun is triggered without pulling the hair trigger: then that is irrelevant as well. Shooting a twelve bore only requires that the explosion triggered something to project from the firearm.
I agree to the sound point though
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
