I've seen signs like this my entire life and haven't thought much of them except to wonder where the bullets went after passing through the metal. I suspect many think that they just plop on the ground a few feet away, which they don't. Then again very few of us have ever stood on the other side of these signs with someone taking target practice just a few feet away. Seems to make a difference which side of the sign you are on. One side or the other if you catch my drift.
Obviously more than a few people are in sympathy with those on the other side of the sign and are growing weary of those who convolute every argument to the point that there is only one side that is correct. Problem is that when one side goes all loony on us, we keep trying to find a middle ground in the blind hope they will meet us halfway. Instead of stopping the argument after the first bit of baloney and saying "no! we are not going to talk about anything UNTIL you retract the bullshit", we just let them build one half-truth after another until we are tussling with some brain dead argument that makes reason impossible.Ms. Martinez and her classmates like the thousands of others from all over have stood on the wrong side of the sign while some gangster played target practice. It was real and the shooters were often lousy shots. In fact, most of these shootings have a "hit" percentage of about 40% of bullets fire and
My point is that this debate is now a balancing act between those on either side of the sign. One side of it poses no threat at all to the other. The other side is made up of the target practice types SOME OF WHOM don't care if it is a sign or the kid standing behind it.
I guess its all relative.