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Re: one of the two days said by MysticGogeta:Yes however even a slight curve is deadly, and people tend to drink so they don't always shoot strait up intoxicated. (I do own several guns but hate people who shoot guns for new years.) Maybe you're defining "slight curve" differently than I do. But, 5-10 degrees either side of 90 (straight up) isn't going to produce any more lateral motion on the falling bullet than the normal air currents will.
If you're talking 30 degrees away from 90 (straight up), then I agree. It will still have significant forward energy as gravity pulls the bullet to the ground.
Again, I'm not trying to say celebratory gunfire is harmless or tolerable. I'm just sensitive to the definition because I keep seeing news stories of a bullet that entered a home's wall and struck someone 20 feet away from that entry point. That's not a falling bullet (the way the news depicts celebratory gunfire).
I just get tired of the news ascribing magical, anthropomorphic powers to anything related to guns. I'm expecting a story about how someone in NY shot into the air and it killed someone in CA. I'm surprised guns don't randomly discharge by themselves!
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