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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun Dec 31, 2017, 10:50 PM Dec 2017

I can hear gunshots

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.

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I can hear gunshots (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Dec 2017 OP
Stupid & dangerous. irisblue Dec 2017 #1
"Responsible" gun owners demonstrating the extent of their responsibility. In WWII, they dropped Hoyt Dec 2017 #2
Usually by now people would be setting off fireworks csziggy Dec 2017 #3
Physics does not apply to trump voters. Turbineguy Dec 2017 #4
I'm sorry this is happening near you. LuckyCharms Jan 2018 #5
Search this: "new year gunfire kill"...... marble falls Jan 2018 #6
Louis Armstrong was arrested for firing a gun into the air New Years Eve 1912 IronLionZion Jan 2018 #7
Several years ago, murielm99 Jan 2018 #8
Sorry that this is happening where you live MustLoveBeagles Jan 2018 #9
Guns shoot, Bullets kill Angry Dragon Jan 2018 #10
Are you in downtown Kabul? MFM008 Jan 2018 #11
It's America Soylent Henry Jan 2018 #12
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. "Responsible" gun owners demonstrating the extent of their responsibility. In WWII, they dropped
Sun Dec 31, 2017, 11:10 PM
Dec 2017

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)
3. Usually by now people would be setting off fireworks
Sun Dec 31, 2017, 11:20 PM
Dec 2017

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.

LuckyCharms

(17,479 posts)
5. I'm sorry this is happening near you.
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 12:08 AM
Jan 2018

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)
6. Search this: "new year gunfire kill"......
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 12:21 AM
Jan 2018

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)
7. Louis Armstrong was arrested for firing a gun into the air New Years Eve 1912
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 12:50 AM
Jan 2018

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)
8. Several years ago,
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 12:57 AM
Jan 2018

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)
9. Sorry that this is happening where you live
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 01:15 AM
Jan 2018

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.

MFM008

(19,837 posts)
11. Are you in downtown Kabul?
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 07:33 AM
Jan 2018

Iraq? Yemen?
This happens in America?
I figured US gun nuts wouldn't waste the bullets...

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