I heard this story this morning on the local news...
This guy is an idiot through and through...
And after all the PSA's we heard ad-nauseum before New Years about celebatory gunfire...I can't imagine this numbnut not getting lectured at his roll-calls before each shift since Christmas...
Max fine and punishment for him if I had anything to say about it...
New Years my wife and I have a nice relatively quiet evening, listening to all the fireworks outside, both on and ove the city limits of Houston (we live right on the border between county and city, on the city side)...
And through the rapid explosions and other aerial ohhhs and ahhhhsss....I heard what I can say from experience was gunfire...In our nieghborhood, not blocks and sometimes houses away...Our nieghborhood has turned into a high-precentage of rental properties over the last 20 years...
So I attribute the lack of knowledge and shear disobiediance of the law to the transient nature of those who choose to rent and stay only for a relatively short time in our neighborhood...
So sure we have made a few phone calls when we see someone breaking the law etc etc...But the enforcement is so overwhelmed, that unless the incident results in a fire, or someone getting injured or killed...It becomes a "yeah, let me get you name and number..." call...
My wife and I live in Ft Bend County, just past the beltway. We definitely heard the sort of rapid-fire bursts that can only come from a semi-automatic being fired a street or so away. My wife was standing outside listening to fireworks (you could smell the black powder in the air) until I insisted she come in lest she get struck by a stray bullet...