• Skepticpunk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Exactly. I hope you don’t mind me firing my gun in the air wildly while you set off those fireworks. After all, I’m just celebrating the Fourth like you! Why should I be blamed just because the bullets are coming down onto people and killing them? It’s not like I meant to kill anyone!

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      1 year ago

      Wat

      It’s all well and good to be firing blanks if you want. The two are just not comparable and I have no clue what you were trying to say.

      • GDTRFB@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It is definitely a thing, and not blanks. At least in St Louis (the city, not so much in the 'burbs/metro area).

        The city sounded like a warzone every NYE and Fourth, there are plenty of videos of it. People find bullets lodged in cars and house roofs etc. And there injuries from it too.

        They held campaigns and mailed out flyers to try to stop it every year, but as far as I know it’s still just as bad if not worse.

        Having said that, I’m not sure either what their point was.