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Bobo Bonobo(R) > wrote:

> On Jul 5, 1:17 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> > MOMPEAGRAM wrote:
> >
> > > Well it wasn't a happy 4th for us!
> >
> > > Our place in Texas was broken into and robbed as well as ransacked!
> >
> > The time to commit a crime is when the police
> > are overloaded with other activities. Holidays
> > and major natural disasters (earthquakes, forest
> > fires, etc.) are examples.
> >
> > The time to commit a crime with a gun is when
> > there's lots of other explosions to cover up
> > the sound of gunfire, New Year's Eve and
> > 4th of July in the U.S.
>
> Here in St. Louis, we have a real problem with folks in low income
> neighborhoods firing guns up into the air to celebrate the New Year.
> Every year for several days before New Years Eve they run commercials
> discouraging it. The bullets don't just stay up. They eventually
> come down.
>
> --Bryan

They usually come down within seconds, but it's still a very bad
practice. :-P I may consider it with blanks but never with live rounds.

It's idiots like that that give responsible gun owners a bad rap.
--
Peace, Om

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