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Bullets go up, then they come down and kill the neighbors' kids. Don't do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by fludlight 7y ago
Bullets go up, then they come down and kill the neighbors' kids. Don't do this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire
- asark 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadeye_Dick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadeye_Dick
- mdorazio 7y agoIf you try to shoot drones with a rifle or handgun. In most cases you would use a shotgun with birdshot, which isn’t really dangerous beyond a few hundred feet unless it hits you in the eye. Still, never shoot at anything unless you’re sure of not hitting fragile things behind it, but fearmongering over shooting down drones isn’t very productive.
- fludlight 7y ago> isn’t really dangerous beyond a few hundred feet The overwhelming majority of the world lives less than a few dozen feet from their neighbors. Homes tend to cluster together even in the middle of nowhere. Now please, pretty please, stop encouraging people to discharge their firearms into the air.
- dillonmckay 7y agoI would love to see the stats for this claim.
- a1369209993 7y agoYou don't fire at your neighbors. Birdshot fired upward (at a drone) is going to fall back down - after losing it's muzzle velocity to air resistance and gravity - at terminal velocity. The terminal velocity of birdshot isn't fast enough to do damage.
- mwilliaams 7y agoIt sounds like this guy lives in a rural area. Probably a redneck haha
- dang 7y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Regional slurs aren't ok either. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? We'd appreciate it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mwilliaams 7y agoI meant no disrespect. I’m pretty country myself and I don’t think redneck is derogatory. In fact a lot of country folk are proud to call themselves rednecks. This is evident in popular culture, for example in songs like ‘Redneck Yacht Club’ and ‘Boys ‘Round Here’, two very popular country songs (they’re good; listen to them).
- dang 7y agoUnderstood, and I believe you. The problem is that intent doesn't come across by itself in internet comments. We don't have things like tone of voice or facial expression to make it clear. So if you're going to post something like this, the burden is on you to include enough information to disambiguate intent. "Haha" isn't enough information.
- mwilliaams 7y agoYes, you are right. I think we all run in to this every once in a while.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIt's still not a good idea, but they've got a point about birdshot. An ordinary bullet, fired straight up, will come down with enough force to hurt or kill. But each pellet of birdshot is much much lighter, so its terminal velocity is lower. Falling from the sky, it shouldn't do more than sting a bit. (I haven't done the math, but I know the notion that a penny dropped from the Empire State Building is false; a penny's terminal velocity is too low. And birdshot is a lot lighter than a penny.)
- brohee 7y agoA bullet fired straight up will come down in free fall (and tumbling). Certainly not lethal nor very dangerous. Bullets fired on ballistic trajectories can be lethal OTOH, That's even a machine gun doctrine to hit enemies behind cover...
- XenophileJKO 7y agoIt's also not very productive to encourge people to violate federal law. https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/88696-before-you-pull-the-trigger-the-legal-implications-of-shooting-down-a-drone https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/88696-before-you-p...
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoI guess it is dangerous to do that in a densely populated area. He would wait for them to get low and hit em with the bird shot. Still I think his energy would be better spent talking to our local government about setting up a drone ban.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoHobos still exist. They typically try to be quiet and go unnoticed so they won't be rousted by local law enforcement. Sure, lots of folks see homeless individuals as less than human and would happily say "Let's shoot them! Problem solved!" But if some fine upstanding citizen's stray bullet is tracked back to him, it's potentially felony manslaughter anyway.
- GordonS 7y agoMaybe I'm missing something, but what on earth has this got to do with the parent comment?!
- DoreenMichele 7y agoJust because you don't see people and you think the neighbor kids are at school doesn't mean there aren't people around that could be hit by a stray bullet. Maybe even people actively trying to not be seen, though they aren't thieves casing the house or whatever. They are just extremely poor. I spent nearly six years homeless. I used to see drones above my tent at night when camped at the foot of some bluffs below expensive housing. I don't believe the people in the expensive housing had any idea I was there. I did my best to have tree cover, to come in under cover of darkness and remain quiet and so forth. I was trying to avoid telling that personal anecdote because I'm routinely given shit for telling my personal anecdotes to explain what I mean.
- svieira 7y agoTo give a voice to the silent - thank you Doreen for telling your story! You have a unique insight into the problems of the homeless and I for one am grateful to you for sharing it.
- m463 7y agoI found a bullet in my roof. It was only a .22, but it was facing straight down into the roof, stuck maybe 1/8" or 1/16" of an inch into it. I was amused and showed it to my neighbor one day and he immediately (and seriously) told his wife "See, I told you we should move out of this neighborhood"
- aiyodev 7y agoFreedom is worth the risk of something so incredibly unlikely. Better one dead kid than millions in chains. Shoot the drones.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't do this here.