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I lived in cities for four decades and rural areas for two. Hearing late night gunshots was routine in cities. I think it's happened once in hearing from my rur
by delichon 2y ago
I lived in cities for four decades and rural areas for two. Hearing late night gunshots was routine in cities. I think it's happened once in hearing from my rural home. My neighbor is a state biologist who put down a sick coyote.
Or course it can happen a lot if you get the wrong neighbors. But that's more of a risk in the city where you have so many more neighbors.
- alamortsubite 2y agoWow, which cities? I've lived between cities and the sticks in the U.S. almost my entire life and while I've never once heard gunfire in a city, in the country it's a daily routine (occasionally, if rarely, even fully automatic).
- spike021 2y agoI lived in downtown San Jose for ten years and someone was shot to death right behind my apartment. San Jose isn't all that unsafe either, relatively speaking.
- batch12 2y agoYou had some pretty well-off rural neighbors if they shot guns daily. Ammunition isn't cheap. I've lived in a rural area for a long time, and, yes maybe once a week or month a neighbor will practice their marksmanship, but thankfully it isn't a daily occurrence.
- alamortsubite 2y agoThe neighbors in rural places I've lived haven't been terribly well-off, as far as I could tell, but they clearly have had different priorities.
- delichon 2y agoIt gets massively cheaper when those priorities include reloading your own ammo. My most well off neighbor is the most prolific shooter I know. He shoots targets almost daily with his .22, and I don't hear it at all from 1/3 mile away. He doesn't use a suppressor, but some kind of quieter round. I guess that means slower.
- alamortsubite 2y agoBesides the caliber, that can also be due to topography and wind.
- batch12 2y agoThis is true. The trade off is time, but reloading is cheaper. Maybe he uses subsonic loads.
- delichon 2y agoSan Jose, Burbank, Albuquerque. Not so much in Santa Cruz or the Denver suburbs.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt might just be a meme, but supposedly it's very common in Chicago?
- ta988 2y agoIn absolute numbers but by rate, it is behind St Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland.
- chasd00 2y agoI live in oakcliff in Dallas (area SW of downtown but still in Dallas proper). Gunshots every night and automatic weapons fire once a month. Police have completely given up, granted it’s all celebratory and usually not crime related. For example, when the cowboys score a touchdown you’ll hear a burst of gunfire.
- alamortsubite 2y agoIf they're only shooting when the Cowboys score, at least they'll save money on ammo.
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