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

... down. Gravity's rainbow.

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

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.

nobody would be harmed by BBs.

... when I lived there.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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