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7 <br />willingly violating safe firearms use.That’s unacceptable to those of us who are <br />hunters, he said. <br />Mr. Tilley then told about a neighbor who liked to purchase large amounts of <br />ammunition after pay day, and shootfor long periods of time on the property next <br />door.Mr. Tilley approached him directly and explained how the shooting was <br />disturbing him. After a nice conversation, Mr. Tilley said, it never happened again. <br />Dr. Arvik said that he appreciatesthe benefit of having a conversation with a <br />neighbor, and he was planning on taking that approach, but the Sheriff’s Office had <br />advised the Neighborhood Watch to call 9-1-1 rather than approach suspicious <br />strangers directly. <br />Deputy Sykes reiterated that unless there is damage to property or personal injury <br />then there is nothing law enforcement can do against an unsafe shooter on private <br />property. <br />Mr. Kirkland said that one thing that appears to be working well is the low amount <br />of property damage in relationship to the amount of calls being made to 9-1-1, <br />especially in an increasingly populous county. On the other hand, he said, a <br />situation such as the one Dr. Arvik recounted is an example of something not <br />working well. <br />Mr. Kirland said that he is constantly having people he does not know shooting on <br />a large tract that he owns off of University Station Road. I’m out in my woods <br />cutting logs or on my tractor somewhere, he said, and I don’t know what they are <br />doing or where those rounds are going. That’s another example of something not <br />working so well, he said.You can call law enforcement against people shooting on <br />another person’s property without permission, but nine times out of ten the shooter <br />will be gone before law enforcement arrives.And the property owner might not be <br />home all the time. <br />I’ve had people ask me why we even need to have this possible ordinance, he <br />added. They ask, what’s the problem, where have the injuries been, where did <br />someone get shot, where are the bullets hitting the house? Well, we know that in <br />some cases there has been that problem. I’m sure that everyone here is a <br />responsible firearms enthusiast.We have a duty to make sure everyone around us <br />is safe. That’s part of the game. We were taught from our granddads when we <br />were little kids that you must know where that round is going, to respect your <br />neighbors. Ninety-nine percent of the folks engaged in shooting are this type of