"Well, yeah, the bullets have to come down somewhere."
My shooting instructor said that a bullet shot straight up in the air is harmless when it falls back to toward the ground. He said if someone were hit by such a bullet it would be the equivalent of a pepple falling on him.
WEll a pebble hit a 12 year old girl in the head and killed her near here.
Your instructor is out to lunch. We had a kid killed at Carnival when a down falling bullet went thru her skull.
Tell that to the people they are putting on stretchers because they were under the bullets.
If a lead "pebble" dropped from the top of the Washington Monument hit you in the face, I suspect it would cause some serious pain.