[afraidfortherepublic]

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!

[JoeProBono]

[nascarnation]

Helmets, folks, helmets for all......

[mylife]

Slow news day?

[Iron Munro]

They never should have stopped teaching about gravity in grade school.

[mylife]

1/20th the price of a box of 9mm

[Vaquero]

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.

[TauntedTiger]

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.

Sounds like our US Constitution and Bill of Rights took a couple head shots during the methodical door to door search.

[pallis]

What goes up, must come down. It’s a difficult concept for some people to grasp.

[bgill]

What goes up must come down.

[DefeatCorruption]

Shooting celebratory bullets into the air has always struck me as one of the most brainless acts on this planet.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In Arizona they are extremely serious about celebratory gunfire. On those holidays they set up listening equipment to quickly triangulate the origin of the gunfire, and then there are cops all over the place, looking for the shooter, and with no sense of humor.

It is a felony in Arizona.

[ozzymandus]

A few years ago, cops arrested a woman who fired into the air to scare off thieves who were stealing her car. They have even arrested people who fired into the ground to threaten criminals. The actual criminals, they don’t care so much about.

[dead]

They've appealed for anyone who fired a gun into the dimming night sky... to come forward.

Yeah, that'll happen.

The weight and shape of the falling bullet would determine it's terminal velocity and the amount of damage it could do.

Obviously enough to kill a seven-year-old when hitting him on the top of the skull.

[dead]

"You don't know when you shoot a gun where that bullet's going to come down," said Thompson, a 30-year police veteran. "Some people believe it goes to the moon, it just goes into space."

Obama supporters.

[codder too]

I was an OR nurse. Young boy came in to ER, rushed to OR where surgeon attempted to stop bleed in the brain. 22 long rifle bullet entered through eyelid leaving no visible point of entry and traversed the brain. Target shooter was 1/2 mile away. We lost that Little League outfielder. Look and Think before you shoot.

[editor-surveyor]

Don’t bullets that are shot into the air just stay there?