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Are people shooting blanks?

demondemidi 3y ago
I've never actually seen "blanks" at any sporting goods or gun store in the 15 years I was really into guns. Reloaders typically reload rifle bullets, so I find it highly unlikely anyone is shooting blanks. Especially during drunken sportsing celebrations.
- sbierwagen 3y ago
  If you're buying ammo online and sorting by cost per round, it's easy to make an expensive mistake: https://twitter.com/westernunion2k/status/1417122995957506049 https://twitter.com/westernunion2k/status/141712299595750604...
chasd00 3y ago
No just random gunfire. People in their cars shooting in the air and then speeding off. They’re definitely not shooting at people otherwise it would be national news every night. I think the local police have resorted to a “just please aim in a safe direction” stance instead of trying to stop them. New years is especially annoying. Something like shotspotter wouldn’t work for this because by the time you get the info and call it in the people doing the shooting are miles away and there isn’t a crime scene per se to investigate.
- sbierwagen 3y ago
  >otherwise it would be national news every night. Well, Dallas had 246 murders last year. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2024/01/11/1-year-246-dead-dallas-sees-rise-in-murders-in-2023-as-violent-crime-drops/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2024/01/11/1-year-246-... That's a killing every other day, and obviously does not include nonfatal shootings. While it is true that there is lots of death in the news, most murders are not newsworthy. For instance, did you know there were 21 school shootings in 2020? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th... Surprising, right? You certainly didn't hear about a shooting every other week that year. (Granted, 2020 was an unusual year, news wise.) But look at the descriptions of the shootings: "A large group of men jumped a fence to gain access to Atascocita High Schools football field, when an argument escalated and a 19-year-old was killed.[503]". "At Sonora High School in downtown Sonora, a student named Eric Aguiar, 17, was shot and killed in the High School's parking lot.[507]". "A 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student was shot and killed in a campus parking lot outside the student center. Investigators believed the shooting occurred during an arranged meeting to sell headphones.[513]". Parking lots, dangerous places! Dallas could have a thousand murders a year, or five thousand, and you'd never hear about them-- if the murders were boring enough.

I've never actually seen "blanks" at any sporting goods or gun store in the 15 years I was really into guns. Reloaders typically reload rifle bullets, so I find it highly unlikely anyone is shooting blanks. Especially during drunken sportsing celebrations.

sbierwagen 3y ago
If you're buying ammo online and sorting by cost per round, it's easy to make an expensive mistake: https://twitter.com/westernunion2k/status/1417122995957506049 https://twitter.com/westernunion2k/status/141712299595750604...

chasd00 3y ago

No just random gunfire. People in their cars shooting in the air and then speeding off. They’re definitely not shooting at people otherwise it would be national news every night. I think the local police have resorted to a “just please aim in a safe direction” stance instead of trying to stop them. New years is especially annoying. Something like shotspotter wouldn’t work for this because by the time you get the info and call it in the people doing the shooting are miles away and there isn’t a crime scene per se to investigate.

sbierwagen 3y ago
>otherwise it would be national news every night. Well, Dallas had 246 murders last year. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2024/01/11/1-year-246-dead-dallas-sees-rise-in-murders-in-2023-as-violent-crime-drops/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2024/01/11/1-year-246-... That's a killing every other day, and obviously does not include nonfatal shootings. While it is true that there is lots of death in the news, most murders are not newsworthy. For instance, did you know there were 21 school shootings in 2020? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th... Surprising, right? You certainly didn't hear about a shooting every other week that year. (Granted, 2020 was an unusual year, news wise.) But look at the descriptions of the shootings: "A large group of men jumped a fence to gain access to Atascocita High Schools football field, when an argument escalated and a 19-year-old was killed.[503]". "At Sonora High School in downtown Sonora, a student named Eric Aguiar, 17, was shot and killed in the High School's parking lot.[507]". "A 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student was shot and killed in a campus parking lot outside the student center. Investigators believed the shooting occurred during an arranged meeting to sell headphones.[513]". Parking lots, dangerous places! Dallas could have a thousand murders a year, or five thousand, and you'd never hear about them-- if the murders were boring enough.