Posted on 08/10/2013 9:21:54 AM PDT by chessplayer
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (AP) — When a stray bullet pierced the top of Brendon Mackey's head, the 7-year-old was on his way to a July Fourth fireworks celebration with his dad and other family members. He died the next day in a Richmond hospital, a bullet lodged at the base of his skull, sparking a methodical, door-to-door search for a most elusive killer: celebratory gunfire.
How stupid! Should they look fora Middle Easterner, or an Hispanic? Those are the only people I know of who regularly shoot bullets into the air to fall who knows where!
For some cultures, gravity is a hard-to-comprehend scientific concept.
CC
I know a couple of people who live in Midlothian, which is a suburb of Richmond. Richmond is like the Detroit of Virginia.
Helmets, folks, helmets for all......
Slow news day?
They never should have stopped teaching about gravity in grade school.
These people ever hear of blanks?
I would guess hispanics, but you know what I don’t get?
Firecrackers are cheaper that ammo, so why would you do it?
I’m glad that I’ve always lived some place more sensible.
I remember early in my marriage, my husband wanted to go hunting on opening day and had nobody to go with him. I sai that I’d go (I wa yong and dumb) and would take the baby. We set up the play pen in a clearing, spread a blanket and I sat reading a French novel that I had never finished in college with a fallen log to lean on.
It seemed forever before he came back. I cold hear gunshots all around. At one point, I heard the voices of some men, and I became a little nervous. I could hear them for a long time before I saw them hiking through the clearing on the other side. I realized that they had no idea that my daughter and I were there!
When my husband came back I asked if he’ shot anything. “There’s nothing out there.”
“What were all those shots” I asked.
“They’re just shooting at trees, it’s opening day,” he answerd.
“How far do those bullets travel?” I asked. I don’t remember the answer except that it alarmed me because I realized that the hunters surrounding us had no idea to expect that we’d be there. I realized that we were sitting ducks, despite our red clothes. The clearing in the woods was a very stupid place to be. I told him off, and he agreed. I’ve never gone out in the woods with him again.
African Firecrackers
How stupid! Should they look fora Middle Easterner, or an Hispanic? Those are the only people I know of who regularly shoot bullets into the air to fall who knows where!
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JOE BIDEN.
He was demonstrating how to fire a shotgun into the air to ward off evil spirits and gang bangers and intruders and home invaders etc etc etc
when a municipality in Colorado suggested making a drone hunting license I thought to myself, that the best way to get people killed or injured would be to tell people it is ok to shoot rifles into the sky. I suppose there are locales in Colorado were this is not a problem, but in farm country and towns this can kill.
mythbusters I believe proved that if the bullet is straight up and down that the bullet probably can not kill, but almost any angle less than 90° can.
Gunny says: “One of you stupid MF’s shoot in the air again, I will tear your head off and....â€
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