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It's so stupid and dangerous. I am beginning to hear occasional gunshots as people begin to celebrate the New Year by firing guns into the air.
There was a story on the evening news warning people that what goes up must come down, and tonight they showed damage from last year where bullets fell from the sky into cars, and even into someone's home, falling a foot from where a child was playing.
Sometime in the past I even heard of one bullet falling and hitting a man in the head, killing him.
It's just so stupid, or I'm an old foggie.
irisblue
(33,063 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)these bullet like things by the thousands from airplanes. By the time they reached ground, they were deadly, could even penetrate roofs, not to mention skulls.
csziggy
(34,141 posts)Tonight it is 44 F with rain and fog. Somehow I think no one wants to be out in that and even if they were, it'd be hard to light the fireworks.
Turbineguy
(37,422 posts)Trump says so.
LuckyCharms
(17,479 posts)I recently read a long article about this. Apparently, a perfect 90 degree straight shot up into the air will usually render no harm when the bullet falls. I forget the physics on why this is so.
However, any trajectory less/greater than 90 degrees, and the bullet can certainly kill when it comes back to earth.
Stay inside!
Happy New Year, and stay safe.
marble falls
(57,615 posts)I was shocked by the number of people in this country killed and that this is a problem all over the planet.
IronLionZion
(45,673 posts)if it was illegal and people knew it was wrong back then, there's no excuse for people to do it now. They should just find a hobby or something, learn how to play the trumpet like Louis Armstrong did after that incident.
murielm99
(30,790 posts)a little boy here, three years old, was shot in the head by a New Year's Eve reveller. The boy survived and was okay after a couple of surgeries. But it was stupid for someone blocks away to shoot off a gun and harm a child.
It is -8 tonight. I hope it is too cold for people to be out shooting tonight.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,691 posts)When my husband and I lived in an apartment several years ago, we had a neighbor in a nearby house do this when it was unseasonably warm outside. Knowing this person he was probably drunk at the time. No one got hurt from it thank goodness, but talk about irresponsible. People like this have no business possessing guns.
It's -3 F this year where I live so that should deter most of the idiots.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)MFM008
(19,837 posts)Iraq? Yemen?
This happens in America?
I figured US gun nuts wouldn't waste the bullets...
Soylent Henry
(32 posts)Gunshots can always be heard, as they speak way more loudly than our gutless politicians!