The gunfire has started.

[MilesColtrane]

Why, oh why, must idiots get drunk a shoot their handguns into the air on New Years eve?

I wish each and every one of them could be caught and brought up on charges.

As hazardous as driving to and from a gig on this night can be, I'd actually feel safer than if I was here at home.

Anybody got a good army surplus helmet they can loan me?

[ellisonz]

1. Because they can...

[RebelOne]

2. Because they are total idiots.

A little boy was killed last New Year here in the Atlanta area after some moron shot into the air and the bullet came down into a church and killed the boy. These dumbasses do not realize that whatever goes up eventually comes down.

[Populist_Prole]

3. Got a hole in my roof that caused a leak on due to that.

Scared the hell out of me knowing that if I were outside and it fell short a few feet in its trajectory I'd be a hurting, if not expired, unit.

[MilesColtrane]

4. Damn.

I wish they made kevlar roofing tiles.

[Mopar151]

25. Not at $50 a shingle, you don't n/t

[rrneck]

5. Even heard it here last night.

Fireworks don't go bam bam bam.

Idiots.

[oneshooter]

6. Mostly hispanics here. It is a "tradition" where they came from and

we don't want them to loose their traditions just because it's against the law here!
We must remain tolerant, and understanding of our neighbors ways.

That is the Democratic way.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas


Where in the hell is that thingy?

[UTUSN]

7. The "sarcasm" is supposed to mean the opposite of what you say.

It seems like some clarification is needed.

[oneshooter]

8. I was being sarcastic of those who do not want to intergrate into our melting pot

and keep their dangerous "traditions" alive and injuring others.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

10. Who says they don't want to integrate into

our melting pot? Have you polled them, oh wise blue dog?

[oneshooter]

15. They are still firing firearms into the air. Endangering others.

Just like in " the old country".
If you ask them they will tell you that.

Whats with the "blue dog" shit. If you don't like it aleart on me.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

17. Someone did alert your racist post.

They emailed me and told me. The jury must have been from your neck of the woods.

[oneshooter]

18. Not racist, truth. n/t

[susanr516]

20. Truth?

My family is just about 50/50 White/Hispanic and I went to a New Year's Eve party with the Hispanic side last night. Lots of menudo, bunuelos, and tequila, and not a single gunshot was fired. The white side of my family has often been known to start firing off every gun in the family arsenal just about the time the 10 pm newscast ends. Personally, I think your gross generalization of an entire ethnic group is unwarranted.

[Major Nikon]

22. That's the claim of many(most) racist statements

The claim is that it can't possibly be racist, because it's the "truth". So you take a claim, which may be true for some and then broad brush it across an entire group. This is the epitome of many racist statements if not racism itself, and is often repeated.

[Major Nikon]

21. No more so than any other racist bullshit I've seen

There's plenty of white Americans who think it's a great idea to leave loaded guns laying around with small children with predictable results. Do you think that makes it part of their "tradition"? Judging the whole of a people by the worst actions of their society is ignorant, stupid, and yes, extremely racist whether you admit it or not.

Cheers!

[Major Nikon]

19. Honestly I'd rather have them than some of the gun nuts around here

Some of them think that just because they have 1 acre of "land" they can shoot at everything that moves, to include dogs, cats, coyotes, armadillos, and possum, even though it's within city limits, illegal, and they are "endangering others." I know several people who have bullet holes in their fences, barns, and/or homes, and accidental shooting injuries are epidemic around here. We even have personal injury lawyers that specialize in accidental gun injuries and death. Even though Texas has a huge Hispanic population, most of the ones I see that get caught are the non-Hispanic rube gun nuts.

[Mopar151]

26. When do you move to my neighborhood?

Other than the armadillos, you have perfectly caputred the gun nut/moron lifestyle in NH. Yes, there are bullet holes in my house, and my neighbor's.

[Amaril]

23. What the devil are you on about?

What is this "old country" nonsense? The only people that I have ever seen employ this particular New Year's Eve "tradition" were a bunch of 10th generation red necks that invited themselves to a party I had one year when I was living in Charleston, South Carolina.

[PassingFair]

27. Yeah, well we've got nothing but multi-generation assholes around here.

And you have to wear helmets and gear is you wanna run around
outside at the stroke of midnight.

Welcome back to Detroit! We must have missed you the first time!

[Burma Jones]

24. Funny....there's a large Salvadoran population here in Montgomery County, MD and

they don't shoot guns on New Years......I guess that means they aren't Hispanic, phew, that's a relief...........

Lot's of Guatemalans too, thank God they're not Hispanic either, I'd have to sell my house and move.........


I'll say this, we do have a tradition of tolerance here, in a county of about one million people, of which about 175,000 are Hispanic, we have no elected Republicans, none, not even the Clerk of Court. That being said, if anyone shot off a gun anywhere near a populated area, their ass would be in Jail lickety split.....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Used to live one street over from a creek...

...which meant a long cement "bowl" that the local gang members used to like to throw fireworks into because it amplified the sound.

The house I lived in was a 55-year old shithole, a one-story "ranch home" that, as the cliche says, was "held together by termites."

My street was one long procession of neck tattoos, Oakland Raider bling and fist-bumps as these fucking "gangstas" (most of which still lived with mom and dad) would gather in the street and light just about anything with a fuse. I used to freak the fuck out during dry spells when I'd see one of their bottle rockets go up in the air, imagining it landing on my roof and torching the place in seconds.

I now live about three miles away, in the same city, but it's a much better neighborhood and I don;t think I heard ANY fireworks last night. In the old neighborhood, when I used to have to call the cops, they would drive over and say "Well, this IS a bad neighborhood."

[JI7]

11. i don't know why people insist on doing this even after people have been killed

most of the times it seems like it has been some little kids who were killed. this year i think some guy got a bullet fall on his leg or something else that wasn't life threatening. but still.....

i think the people who do this are stupid motherfuckers.

[MilesColtrane]

12. Yeah, it's not even like just one or two shots at midnight (which is bad enough).

Idiots were emptying clips.

It felt I was in downtown Kabul.

[BreweryYardRat]

13. Ditto.

I spent New Year's Eve in rural Florida. Contrary to stereotypes, only one person in the neighborhood was stupid enough to open up. Nothing came through the roof, but I didn't appreciate having to worry about that.

[oneshooter]

16. The last few years I have helped a buddy in loading and firing his

four pounder Napoline cannon. 1/2lb of black powder and a newspaper wad. Makes a lot of smoke and a large? bang.

[baldguy]

14. Small penises.

[chrisa]

30. Yup

[Renew Deal]

28. Was this story in your area?

West Florida boy critically wounded by celebratory gunfire

[MilesColtrane]

29. No. I scanned the papers the following few days to see if anyone was injured or killed.

People around here got lucky.

[Renew Deal]

31. I thought of your post as soon as I saw that story.

[Bake]

33. I'm only gonna say it one more time ...

Guns and alcohol DO NOT MIX!



Bake

[geardaddy]

34. I always thought the ATF

was a dangerous mixture of stuff.