Is this a common thing on New Year's Eve that I just never noticed?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[wcmagumba]

1. It has been common in my small red state town but I didn't hear as much this year it seems...

I always think about the bullets having to fall down somewhere...hmmm...

[sop]

2. Miami-Dade police advise citizens to go inside to avoid the falling bullets fired into the air on New Year's eve.

[marble falls]

9. That's just it, bullets don't run out of impetus and drop, they are ballistic and they follow a parabola back ...

... down. Gravity's rainbow.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. In my hometown of 500, it was something that happened.

I do not recall it happening in the more urban areas I lived in, even if they were in red states.

[2naSalit]

4. The shooting of the guns...

Is common is almost every town or city where I've lived in the Rockies. Wandering around in the streets shooting is not something I've ever seen. Now that I live elsewhere, very small town, I didn't hear any guns and I didn't even hear a single firecracker.

It was so nice to start the year with the sounds of peace rather than sounds of war.

[doc03]

5. It used to years ago, not so much today. People sometimes fire a shotgun in the air

nobody would be harmed by BBs.

[marble falls]

6. Happened every year in Chicago, including rounds that went though roofs and hit children in bed sleeping, ...

... when I lived there.

[Zackzzzz]

7. Yes, in Chicago.

I remember as a child, my parents friends, coming down the stairs,
the wife was trying to grab the pistol from him. God it was frightening.
We never saw them after that event.

[mopinko]

12. happens on my block. 4th of july, too.

[marble falls]

13. What is it with Chicago and gunfire. I heard it in Akron, Ohio, too, but nothing like in Chicago.

[mopinko]

14. well, tbh

i dont mind knowing which of my neighbors r gun toting idiots.

it’s always been a fairly lawless place. good in some ways. not a lot of the petty, rigid shit u see in small towns. big part of the reason i moved here. small town cops r insane. chgo cops dont sweat the small stuff.

[marble falls]

16. Been I while since I've run into you here. I hope you're doing fine!

[mopinko]

17. well, lemme put it this way- i'm extra glad to see the end of this yr.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1183&pid=13251

[Dale in Laurel MD]

8. Used to be firecrackers and shotguns out my way.

Pretty quiet in recent years (I slept right through midnight this year).

[IbogaProject]

10. 250 or more years in Philidelphia

It is a New Years coustom from at least the 18th century in Philadelphia.

[Sedona]

11. Shannon's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_law_(Arizona)

Shannon's law is named after Shannon Smith, a fourteen-year-old Phoenix girl killed by a stray bullet in June 1999. Smith's parents, after being informed that the assailant's activity constituted, at most, a misdemeanor offense, advocated stronger penalties, to prevent future incidents of this kind.

Otis and Lory Smith joined the board of directors for Arizonans for Gun Safety. They started a campaign that took them all over Arizona. Their efforts were supported by councilman Phil Gordon, the city council of Tucson, and president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston. After a speech by Governor Jane Dee Hull voicing her support, senate minority leader Jack A. Brown named passing the law a priority. The Arizona legislature failed to pass the bill twice in 1999, but it finally received both state senate and state house approval in April 2000. The bill was enacted that July, with Governor Hull signing the bill in the Smiths’ front yard.

[soldierant]

15. And here I thought

that was what cap guns are for. Just naive, I guess.