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Deltona Couple · 01-15-2007, 04:59 AM

HOW DANGEROUS IS IT??? ANYONE who fires a gun into the air without a specific target (read a BIRD or other animal) should be shot themselves! It is VERY dangerous! and most likely leathal. I didn't see the episode on "mythbusters", but I can tell you that they are wrong in the MAJORITY of all air-fired gunshots from what I have read in this thread. There have been HUNDREDS of cases over the past years showing how many people die from these RECKLESS shootings in the air. I will look up more later, but here is a start...

People often celebrate by firing guns into the air without realizing that this can cause serious injury or death. 2 Bullets fired into the air during celebrations fall with sufficient force to cause injury and death. 1 The mortality rate is significantly higher than for all gunshot wound victims in general because the patients are usually hit in the head. 2 The injuries could also be caused by the bullet hitting the causality directly as showed in this case report. Events are often celebrated with fireworks and bonfire. Salutatory gunshots are often restricted to military celebration. In Nigeria especially in the western part guns could be fired during celebrations like burial, coronation and chieftaincy, wedding, traditional festivals, hunters' festivals, victory in political elections, and at political gathering. Gun shots are also fired during Christmas and New Year celebrations. In Puerto Rico, where Christmas and New Year celebrations are common, news media reports have indicated that approximately two persons die and an estimated 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve. 1

References
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). New Year's Eve injuries caused by celebratory gunfire--Puerto Rico, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004 Dec 24;53(50):1174-5.

2. Ordog GJ, Dornhoffer P, Ackroyd G, Wasserberger J, Bishop M, Shoemaker W, Balasubramanium S. Spent bullets and their injuries: the result of firing weapons into the sky. J Trauma. 1994 Dec;37(6):1003-6.

01-15-2007, 04:59 AM	#30 (permalink)
Deltona Couple Addict Location: Spring, Texas	HOW DANGEROUS IS IT??? ANYONE who fires a gun into the air without a specific target (read a BIRD or other animal) should be shot themselves! It is VERY dangerous! and most likely leathal. I didn't see the episode on "mythbusters", but I can tell you that they are wrong in the MAJORITY of all air-fired gunshots from what I have read in this thread. There have been HUNDREDS of cases over the past years showing how many people die from these RECKLESS shootings in the air. I will look up more later, but here is a start... People often celebrate by firing guns into the air without realizing that this can cause serious injury or death. 2 Bullets fired into the air during celebrations fall with sufficient force to cause injury and death. 1 The mortality rate is significantly higher than for all gunshot wound victims in general because the patients are usually hit in the head. 2 The injuries could also be caused by the bullet hitting the causality directly as showed in this case report. Events are often celebrated with fireworks and bonfire. Salutatory gunshots are often restricted to military celebration. In Nigeria especially in the western part guns could be fired during celebrations like burial, coronation and chieftaincy, wedding, traditional festivals, hunters' festivals, victory in political elections, and at political gathering. Gun shots are also fired during Christmas and New Year celebrations. In Puerto Rico, where Christmas and New Year celebrations are common, news media reports have indicated that approximately two persons die and an estimated 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve. 1 References 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). New Year's Eve injuries caused by celebratory gunfire--Puerto Rico, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004 Dec 24;53(50):1174-5. 2. Ordog GJ, Dornhoffer P, Ackroyd G, Wasserberger J, Bishop M, Shoemaker W, Balasubramanium S. Spent bullets and their injuries: the result of firing weapons into the sky. J Trauma. 1994 Dec;37(6):1003-6. __________________ "It is not that I have failed, but that I have found 10,000 ways that it DOESN'T work!" --Thomas Edison