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Thirty shots fired is not random. This isn't kids shooting at bottles in the backyard. Feels like details here are being omitted. If thirty shots can be fired

by newaccount2021 5y ago

Thirty shots fired is not random. This isn't kids shooting at bottles in the backyard. Feels like details here are being omitted. If thirty shots can be fired in your neighborhood without an immediate and massive police response, you should move immediately.

stevehawk 5y ago
define immediate. it takes seconds to fire thirty rounds. it takes minutes for police to respond to anything
- coldtea 5y ago
  Ten to twenty minutes, and closing down the whole 1+ mile area, like it was a terrorist attack. That would be the case in a civilized city/country. Else, it appears as if 30 gunshot rounds is like routine in that place, so it's a kind of shithole.
  - noodlesUK 5y ago
    In the west coast city I lived in last year, it wasn’t uncommon (more than once per week easily) for people to drive around in trucks at night (or even in the day sometimes) and just unload magazines into the sky for no apparent reason. In any other country I’ve ever visited, this would result in a huge news response condemning the act along with a significant police response. I never even saw most of these on the news or saw any significant police response.
    - 5ESS 5y ago
      In some Arab countries this is a normal day time activity often done during weddings.
- phendrenad2 5y ago
  Well we don't need the police to scoop up the bullets out of the air. If they can get there within 20 minutes, and find a pile of shell casings and dudes with warm guns in their posession, and sulphur smoke in the air, maybe they can do something as a deterrent to future cases, such as presenting all of them to the DA with a nice bow on top.
  - jopython 5y ago
    When seconds count police are minutes away.
- tomjakubowski 5y ago
  the police were already responding to the gunfire as the girlfriend was calling 911
tsss 5y ago
If you expect police to do anything to help you, you'd probably have to move into the whitehouse.
Kye 5y ago
30 is not that much if someone nearby is doing target practice. They're going to get someone killed some day, but the police don't care.
- giantg2 5y ago
  "They're going to get someone killed some day..." Most of the time - no. Most farms I know of have a good backstop, consistent with any "official" gun range.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - Kye 5y ago
    There's kinds of farms. The kind nearby is the kind someone buys because they're rich enough to own a farm without caring about paying for it with the farm. A farm for someone who can't bridge the gap between their self-identification as a working-class conservative and the amount of money they have. I checked the particular neighborhood in the article, and it's all single-family homes, so probably someone in their backyard goofing off. A neighbor in a similar place liked to run around shooting squirrels with a pistol. The police never showed up. It was an awkward, anxious few years before he moved out. He also liked to shoot bottle rockets without regard for direction. I got buzzed a few times. Georgia is a land of contrasts.
    - pseudo0 5y ago
      From the article: > Shepard, whose apartment is in the Atlanta suburb of Brookhaven, who told the television station that the couple woke up on Jan 16 to the sound of more than 30 gunshots coming from an apartment complex directly behind Shepards. Seems pretty clear that this wasn't a case of someone target shooting with an insufficient backstop.
      - giantg2 5y ago
        Pretty sure the comment i was responding to mentioned people on farms (not related to the article), but is now edited.
sergiomattei 5y ago
As someone living in a relatively poor state, thirty shots is just another normal night. The police doesn’t do shit.
- Tade0 5y ago
  What are these people aiming at?
peoplefromibiza 5y ago
> If thirty shots can be fired in your neighborhood without an immediate and massive police response, you should move immediately. rephrasing: if thirty shots can be fired and nothing ever changes and the same things keep happening again and again, you should move ASAP, I agree. You should move abroad to a more civilized country. EDIT: this happened a month ago. https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/12/03/columbia-university-italian-student-stabbed-to-death_222288e1-66d3-48a9-8954-07903316f452.html https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/12/03/col... USA is no country for civilized people. TBF some of them are dangerous even outside of their borders https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/world/europe/americans-murder-italian-police-officer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/world/europe/americans-mu... In 2021 the whole EU (population 448 millions) registered ~3.5k homicides. USA (population 332 millions)? > 20k (+29% compared to 2020, during a pandemic, while in the rest of the World homicide stats went down considerably)
powvans 5y ago
I was going to reply that this sort of thing isn't all that uncommon here in Atlanta. Then I clicked the link and saw this this happened in Brookhaven, which is formerly a neighborhood of Atlanta proper. <sigh>
tomjakubowski 5y ago
Quote from TFA: "Police were in the vicinity pursuing reports of gunfire when the 911 call from Shepard came in."
yread 5y ago
How else would you keep the house prices from skyrocketing /s

stevehawk 5y ago

define immediate. it takes seconds to fire thirty rounds. it takes minutes for police to respond to anything

coldtea 5y ago
Ten to twenty minutes, and closing down the whole 1+ mile area, like it was a terrorist attack. That would be the case in a civilized city/country. Else, it appears as if 30 gunshot rounds is like routine in that place, so it's a kind of shithole.
- noodlesUK 5y ago
  In the west coast city I lived in last year, it wasn’t uncommon (more than once per week easily) for people to drive around in trucks at night (or even in the day sometimes) and just unload magazines into the sky for no apparent reason. In any other country I’ve ever visited, this would result in a huge news response condemning the act along with a significant police response. I never even saw most of these on the news or saw any significant police response.
  - 5ESS 5y ago
    In some Arab countries this is a normal day time activity often done during weddings.
phendrenad2 5y ago
Well we don't need the police to scoop up the bullets out of the air. If they can get there within 20 minutes, and find a pile of shell casings and dudes with warm guns in their posession, and sulphur smoke in the air, maybe they can do something as a deterrent to future cases, such as presenting all of them to the DA with a nice bow on top.
- jopython 5y ago
  When seconds count police are minutes away.
tomjakubowski 5y ago
the police were already responding to the gunfire as the girlfriend was calling 911

tsss 5y ago

If you expect police to do anything to help you, you'd probably have to move into the whitehouse.

Kye 5y ago

30 is not that much if someone nearby is doing target practice. They're going to get someone killed some day, but the police don't care.

giantg2 5y ago
"They're going to get someone killed some day..." Most of the time - no. Most farms I know of have a good backstop, consistent with any "official" gun range.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- Kye 5y ago
  There's kinds of farms. The kind nearby is the kind someone buys because they're rich enough to own a farm without caring about paying for it with the farm. A farm for someone who can't bridge the gap between their self-identification as a working-class conservative and the amount of money they have. I checked the particular neighborhood in the article, and it's all single-family homes, so probably someone in their backyard goofing off. A neighbor in a similar place liked to run around shooting squirrels with a pistol. The police never showed up. It was an awkward, anxious few years before he moved out. He also liked to shoot bottle rockets without regard for direction. I got buzzed a few times. Georgia is a land of contrasts.
  - pseudo0 5y ago
    From the article: > Shepard, whose apartment is in the Atlanta suburb of Brookhaven, who told the television station that the couple woke up on Jan 16 to the sound of more than 30 gunshots coming from an apartment complex directly behind Shepards. Seems pretty clear that this wasn't a case of someone target shooting with an insufficient backstop.
    - giantg2 5y ago
      Pretty sure the comment i was responding to mentioned people on farms (not related to the article), but is now edited.

sergiomattei 5y ago

As someone living in a relatively poor state, thirty shots is just another normal night. The police doesn’t do shit.

Tade0 5y ago
What are these people aiming at?

peoplefromibiza 5y ago

> If thirty shots can be fired in your neighborhood without an immediate and massive police response, you should move immediately. rephrasing: if thirty shots can be fired and nothing ever changes and the same things keep happening again and again, you should move ASAP, I agree. You should move abroad to a more civilized country. EDIT: this happened a month ago. https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/12/03/columbia-university-italian-student-stabbed-to-death_222288e1-66d3-48a9-8954-07903316f452.html https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/12/03/col... USA is no country for civilized people. TBF some of them are dangerous even outside of their borders https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/world/europe/americans-murder-italian-police-officer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/world/europe/americans-mu... In 2021 the whole EU (population 448 millions) registered ~3.5k homicides. USA (population 332 millions)? > 20k (+29% compared to 2020, during a pandemic, while in the rest of the World homicide stats went down considerably)

powvans 5y ago

I was going to reply that this sort of thing isn't all that uncommon here in Atlanta. Then I clicked the link and saw this this happened in Brookhaven, which is formerly a neighborhood of Atlanta proper. <sigh>

tomjakubowski 5y ago

Quote from TFA: "Police were in the vicinity pursuing reports of gunfire when the 911 call from Shepard came in."

yread 5y ago

How else would you keep the house prices from skyrocketing /s