New Year Gunshots in your area?

I live in Southern California so hearing gunshots on holidays isn't really a new thing. There were 7 quick gunshots a few minutes before the clock struck 12 (I guess their time is off or they couldn't wait) and I've been hearing a fairly steady stream since then.

Do you hear gunshots where you live? Do cops even bother to investigate when it's happening all over the city?

What. Really?

That doesn't sound especially safe. You know, with all the alcohol.

Fireworks, possibly.

Nah this is south central adjacent.

Partially fireworks.

Set off a bunch of car alarms.

I'm also in Southern California so yes.

I live on a dead end street right on the outskirts of a dangerous area in central NY. The city police spokesman lives 3 houses down. We both hunt and shoot. The duders that own the land separating my house from one of the bad parts of town are constantly hunting back there. Point being, I was raised around gun shots, and if controlled properly, they are no big deal to me or any one living around me. It pisses me off that kids aren't being taught the US Constitution like my relatives and I were taught growing up. Like it or not, guns are a part of life to me and many of the folks that live around me. We sometimes depend on the meat it provides to live.

However, if a gun is in the wrong hands, it can be devastating to the whole group. Kind of like when Jack Thompson blames video games for unnecessary gun violence. I see it almost every month where I live.

Fireworks. Bay Area that isn't Oakland.

Yup. It ain't a North Carolina New Year without fools dumpin' into the air.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#Falling-bullet_injuries

Never dump into the air. The larger the caliber, the worse the results

Fuck people who shoot into the air! Those bullets gotta fall down somewhere.

Pop pop pop watchin' birds drop.

Yep, read this.

Mythbusters looked into the dangers of "Celebratory Gunfire". The findings: unless a bullet is shot perfectly vertical, it can easily regain ballistic trajectory and potentially travel even further than an intentionally aimed shot. A handful of people are killed by it every year.

Killed.

If anyone knows anyone who does this, STOP THEM IMMEDIATELY.

(happy new year)

I've never heard those before.

Lots of fireworks went off, but no gunshots here in my area of Northern California. I am sure there were some in the ghetto parts of the Sacramento area.

I Probably heard some but here in LA people just go crazy with Fireworks, gun shots, M80s in bottles. Living hard in the streets bro.

Nope. Just fireworks. Sure sounded a lot like gunfire, though.

I occasionally hear a firework or two, but thankfully no gunshots. There was a scary story in our town a couple years back when a bullet on New Years crashed through a window and nearly hit their baby. Really crazy.

People should shoot off fireworks or shoot blanks, not loaded guns.

there was a guy missing one leg and i may have heard an elephant trumpeting while walking home, but that was about it. :\

Plenty of fireworks, but no gunshots.

Yup. I live in Serbia, so gunshots on new year's are a relatively common occurrence. It's also a safe bet that the dudes who are shooting may have had one or two shots of brandy.

Whatever man, it's tradition.

Nope, just fireworks (I'm assuming they were all fireworks). Shooting a loaded gun into the air is a really stupid thing to do.

China so no since no one cares about the calendar new year.

I'm so glad I live in the UK sometimes.

Or you know, gravity.

@wintersnowblind: I didn't make the connection of shooting them in the air like retards until reading it in the thread. Figured it at least was downrange or something.

I used to hear my fair share of gunshots in North Miami growing up there.

To say the least, I don't live down there anymore more. It could have been worse for me growing up though. For that I am gracious.

I shot off 20-30 fireworks this year, which was alright.

As long as you shoot straight up falling bullets aren't very dangerous, if I recall correctly. Any sort of arc would probably still be lethal, though.

nope. No gunshots where I live. Then again there are maybe three people in total that live on this road so.

Yep

In Chicago, typically yes - but last night was too fucking cold and snowy, so we got a reprieve.

Fuck that. They got guns.

My girlfriend's dad fired off a matchlock rifle twice for fun, it was real loud and smelly

+1

Being in West Virginia, more than likely. That's usually how it goes, with a small mix of fireworks. Not sure about last night though, I was out pretty early and slept through the typical New Years celebrations that go on around here.

Nope

Yeah, who cares if a human life or two is needlessly ended as a result. It's tradition!

Fuck. That.

I haven't read the local news or anything, so it's hard saying if it happened. Lots of noises. Between fireworks and other things that go bang. And just general obnoxiousness of people, I tend to tune it all out. Wouldn't surprise me if it did happen though.

New York is pretty fun on New Years

Nope, I moved from California to Colorado a few years ago, so no more gunshots or police sirens at night. Not even on new years. :P

Surprisingly this year I didn´t heard gunshots , which is strange because here at Chapala lake lots of people do that.

Didn't hear anything in my neck of the woods... but I was asleep by 9:00 so I am probably not the best to answer that question. Things are generally pretty tame around here on New Years.

There was a guy in Vienna who shot at the ground a few times near me. Can't really say if I heard them or not. Police came and arrested him. Also he was carrying a fake ID card and bought the gun from the black market. A very clever guy.

Nope. Isn't that what fireworks are for? Also, don't those bullets rain down somewhere? At terminal velocity? Like it'll fuck anything up it hits?

So fuck those guys shooting in the air. Flippin' madmen!

Pennsylvania loves fireworks and guns so yeah, absolutely.

@ramone said:

This. All I get are fireworks and boat horns. Like a lot of the other posters said, just firing shit into the air is depressingly irresponsible.

I just did the drinking thing.

Yep. I live in Southern Missouri, and it's pretty much fireworks exploding all day on New Years, and guns around Midnight.

One gunshot into the lawn here (close to the capital of Sweden). Guy thought it would be difficult to distinguish fireworks from the sound of a heavy revolver emptying a round into the dirt, and that his girl wouldn't yell at him in panic for what he just did.

He wishes he had bought some fireworks now.