Comments on: Fire All of Your Guns at Once: are some people born to be wild? http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild Con maldad hacias sombreros rojo. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:07:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild/comment-page-1#comment-1699 Brian Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:17:53 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild#comment-1699 Dan - I don't think you're being intolerant at all. My reaction when I first saw this story was that I was apparently not very knowledgable when it comes to New Years Eve 'traditions', and also that when a man is running around the street shooting a gun into the air (regardless of his race, social status, or location), it's cause for concern. And if the police ask him to drop the weapon once, if not many times, and he doesn't.............then the police did their jobs. I'll reserve full judgement until all of the facts come out, but it seems pretty close to cut and dried as it gets based on what I've read and heard so far. Dan – I don’t think you’re being intolerant at all. My reaction when I first saw this story was that I was apparently not very knowledgable when it comes to New Years Eve ‘traditions’, and also that when a man is running around the street shooting a gun into the air (regardless of his race, social status, or location), it’s cause for concern. And if the police ask him to drop the weapon once, if not many times, and he doesn’t………….then the police did their jobs. I’ll reserve full judgement until all of the facts come out, but it seems pretty close to cut and dried as it gets based on what I’ve read and heard so far.

]]> By: M.B. http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild/comment-page-1#comment-1688 M.B. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:18:34 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild#comment-1688 How is this for a twist to the same old - same old in the comments section?: I contend that firing a gun into the air is not quite as lethal as is portrayed in the media and by law enforcement. Dangerous? Yes. Stupid? Yes. But not quite the sinister act it is purported to be. A Google search on the topic showed many results. Many seemed to say that conditions would have to be right for a bullet fired into the air to be lethal (come down point first as opposed to on it's side or backwards, caliber, ect.) If it was so lethal don't you think the media would relish in showing the voluminous dead bodies in the Middle Eastern countries from the falling bullets when the nut jobs over there are unloading their rifles indiscriminately into the air? There was an episode on "Mythbusters" on this topic which showed basically the same results. As one site pointed out; anything falling from a great height has potential to be lethal if the conditions are right. An example of such is a hailstone. How many people are killed by hail? Hail falls from greater heights than a bullet from a small caliber handgun. Obviously I'm no expert on the topic, and I feel that anyone who fires a gun into the air in celebration deserves jail. However, I don't think it is as lethal as many of the other stupid things people do on a daily basis that we don't get upset about (talk on cell phones and run red lights, shoot guns AT other people, ect.). Laura, You beat me to the punch in regard to giving my assessment on what the "genius" quoted in the paper said about the kids in the house. On a side note, Mr. Pitts has been in and out of prison his whole life. Why doesn't the SJ-R solicit the feelings of a law-abiding Springfield citizen on this topic? Oh, wait. I know why. How is this for a twist to the same old – same old in the comments section?:

I contend that firing a gun into the air is not quite as lethal as is portrayed in the media and by law enforcement. Dangerous? Yes. Stupid? Yes. But not quite the sinister act it is purported to be. A Google search on the topic showed many results. Many seemed to say that conditions would have to be right for a bullet fired into the air to be lethal (come down point first as opposed to on it’s side or backwards, caliber, ect.)

If it was so lethal don’t you think the media would relish in showing the voluminous dead bodies in the Middle Eastern countries from the falling bullets when the nut jobs over there are unloading their rifles indiscriminately into the air?

There was an episode on “Mythbusters” on this topic which showed basically the same results.

As one site pointed out; anything falling from a great height has potential to be lethal if the conditions are right. An example of such is a hailstone. How many people are killed by hail? Hail falls from greater heights than a bullet from a small caliber handgun.

Obviously I’m no expert on the topic, and I feel that anyone who fires a gun into the air in celebration deserves jail. However, I don’t think it is as lethal as many of the other stupid things people do on a daily basis that we don’t get upset about (talk on cell phones and run red lights, shoot guns AT other people, ect.).

Laura,

You beat me to the punch in regard to giving my assessment on what the “genius” quoted in the paper said about the kids in the house.

On a side note, Mr. Pitts has been in and out of prison his whole life. Why doesn’t the SJ-R solicit the feelings of a law-abiding Springfield citizen on this topic? Oh, wait. I know why.

]]> By: Russ http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild/comment-page-1#comment-1686 Russ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:37:10 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild#comment-1686 Mr. Wells had apparently never heard of Newton or Darwin (or Blood, Sweat & Tears). I have heard of this sort of celebration before, but can't imagine that I know anyone who thinks this would be a good idea. And where are we as a society when people like Mr. Wells' neighbor are actually trying to find fault with the police for firing on a guy pointing a loaded gun at them? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia - Celebratory Gunfire</a> <a href="http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/blood_sweat_tears/spinning_wheel.html" rel="nofollow">Spinning Wheel</a> Mr. Wells had apparently never heard of Newton or Darwin (or Blood, Sweat & Tears). I have heard of this sort of celebration before, but can’t imagine that I know anyone who thinks this would be a good idea.

And where are we as a society when people like Mr. Wells’ neighbor are actually trying to find fault with the police for firing on a guy pointing a loaded gun at them?

Wikipedia – Celebratory Gunfire
Spinning Wheel

]]> By: Anon19 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild/comment-page-1#comment-1684 Anon19 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:27:39 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild#comment-1684 Ignorance for sure. Although I guess its kinda ignorant for any of us to think someone who'd shoot a gun into the air with children around would actually put down their weapon when instructed to do so by authorities! What are WE thinking?! Ignorance for sure. Although I guess its kinda ignorant for any of us to think someone who’d shoot a gun into the air with children around would actually put down their weapon when instructed to do so by authorities! What are WE thinking?!

]]> By: Laura http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild/comment-page-1#comment-1682 Laura Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:25:55 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild#comment-1682 I also wondered how the man quoted in the story can fault the police for firing when, he asserts, they should have known kids might be in the house. Apparently they should be familiar with who might be visiting every home in the neighborhood at any given time. Yet the man who fired the shots in the first place knew there were 6 children in the home that night and his friend feels he was completely within his right to unload a few rounds since he looked around and didn't see any of them in the immediate area? Stupidity issue for sure. I also wondered how the man quoted in the story can fault the police for firing when, he asserts, they should have known kids might be in the house. Apparently they should be familiar with who might be visiting every home in the neighborhood at any given time. Yet the man who fired the shots in the first place knew there were 6 children in the home that night and his friend feels he was completely within his right to unload a few rounds since he looked around and didn’t see any of them in the immediate area? Stupidity issue for sure.

]]> By: nancy http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild/comment-page-1#comment-1681 nancy Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:06:01 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild#comment-1681 I'm having trouble understanding how the man sat in a closed bedroom all night, not celebrating with his live-in and her grandkids, but at midnight really felt like whooping it up. I’m having trouble understanding how the man sat in a closed bedroom all night, not celebrating with his live-in and her grandkids, but at midnight really felt like whooping it up.

]]> By: Anonymous Communist http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild/comment-page-1#comment-1680 Anonymous Communist Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:23:59 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/fire-all-of-your-guns-at-once-are-some-people-born-to-be-wild#comment-1680 When I saw the post title, I thought of the Magnapop CD of the same name. But I guess it's a Steppenwolf lyric, too? And celebratory gunfire is more a stupidity issue than anything else. When I saw the post title, I thought of the Magnapop CD of the same name. But I guess it’s a Steppenwolf lyric, too?

And celebratory gunfire is more a stupidity issue than anything else.

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