I realize a lot of BoingBoing readers didn’t grow up with weapons, and it especially gets driven home when there’s a thread about guns.
What Skeptic is saying is absolutely true: you never, ever, ever point a weapon at someone unless you intend to kill them. It doesn’t matter if you’ve already verified twice that a 22 pistol is unloaded; you don’t point it at your buddy as a joke. I personally know a guy who almost got killed by a BB gun.
The same is true about bows. It doesn’t matter how weak the pull is, it doesn’t matter how accomplished you are, or in her case how good your muscular control is, pulling it back and pointing at people is a really horrible idea. One of these days she’s going to be uncharacteristically sweaty, her fingers will be tired, and that string will go sliding right off her fingers. If it’s got enough pull to penetrate the target (and that was damn impressive shooting!) it’s probably got enough pull to penetrate the eyeball or trachea of someone in the front row.
Hopefully someone will patiently use this as a teachable moment.
