[Merlinator]

Comparing a carefully planned military excercise with a bank robber shooting a gun at a ceiling and someone having a heart attack from the noise is ridiculous. The public is fully informed and the affected businesses are informed. It's obvious from the posts on this topic that many citizens appreciate seeing these excercises and feel safer because of them.

Well, tell that to the mothers whose children have been killed by mistaken policemen thinking they we acting in self-defense. It has happened more than once.

Huh? that makes no sense. You are comparing that to a carefully planned manuever?

There’s an obvious risk that the sound of gunfire in a highly congested civilian area might alarm someone.

Wow, I live in a congested civilian area where one might hear a gunshot during the night, heck, Milwaukee's murder rate has been one of the highest thanks to years of another loopy mayor Nordquist and his village idiot police chief Arthur Jones (thankfully we have a decent chief now). Besides not giving me a heart attack I don't let it keep me from going about my business. I sure would feel better though knowing it was coming from a Marine training excercise.

[devere]

“Wow, I live in a congested civilian area where one might hear a gunshot during the night”

You’d be wise to move.