People in the middle east die all the time from morons who shoot their weapons into the air.
However, I don't think a vertically fired bullet is the main danger. Rather, a bullet fired at an angle keeps a lot of it's energy. It goes up and falls down, but never stops moving sideways and retains some of it's initial horizontal velocity.
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