Monday night, the Marion County City-County Council defeated the extension of a 1975 ban on celebratory gunfire and target shooting in Indianapolis. Since 1975, it has been illegal to discharge a firearm within the old Indianapolis city limits, unless it is in self-defense. I don't care what amendment of the Constitution you cite, it is irresponsible and just redneck-stupid to shoot your guns in the air. I can't convey how angry it makes me that people are so stupid as to want to engage in this type of activity. What is this, the wild-west? Jesus, those bullets come down somewhere; I hope they land on the people that supported the repealing of this ban, and their property.
Let's have a short lesson on ballistics. If you shoot your gun straight up in the air, within a few degrees of straight up, when the bullet runs out of energy, it comes straight back down, accelerating at 9.8m/s squared until it reaches its terminal velocity. When the bullet comes back down, it doesn't gain a sufficient enough speed to kill someone, but it can seriously injure you. If you fire the bullet at more than a few degrees past straight-up-and-down, it will achieve a ballistic trajectory retaining most of its energy. When it lands, it will do as much damage as any other bullet; it can kill you.
I can get on board with allowing people to target shoot within Indianapolis city limits; people who target shoot hopefully have gun safety in mind. On the other hand, no gun safety advocate will ever tell you it is OK to shoot your gun in the air in celebration. There is nothing safe about that and laws should specify that citizens engaging in that activity should be prosecuted for reckless endangerment, or attempted murder. It's really that stupid.
Gun retards, don't bother wasting your time commenting on this post; firing your gun in the air is indefensibly stupid, and there is no logical argument for it. If you're dumb enough to support this, I'm gonna flame you.
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