On the average day.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed May 19, 2004 1:27 pm

How many gunshots do you hear in the average day? I usually hear 2 or 3. Just now (7:20AM) I heard 6 in rapid succession...It's 5 minutes later, and now I hear sirens.

My grandma's woken up at her house a few miles away with bullet holes in her walls and a stray bullet 3 inches from her head imbedded in her pillow.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Wed May 19, 2004 1:59 pm

That's elite. Or scary. Eh.

Out here in the country, if it's hunting season I'll hear upwards of twenty from the woods, other times none.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Wed May 19, 2004 2:33 pm

I've heard gunshots once, at about 04:00 just as I went to bed.
As I looked out me window I saw some punk being chased by coppers.
But that is the one and only time. It (and my window, Yay) made the national news.

Sweden is a rather peaceful country I suppose.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed May 19, 2004 2:41 pm

None at all, I very seldomly hear gunshots all tbh.
I suppose that isn't too much of that stuff in my neighbourhood.

Aneurysm · Post by **Aneurysm** » Wed May 19, 2004 3:07 pm

Heh Ryno , you live in the ghetto or something , or it's more or less like this in all america ?
In my parent's home I have never heard any shots , in my work environment I usually hear around a thousand a day, but it's not a civilian area so it shouldnt count.
Why are you asking all this ?

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Wed May 19, 2004 5:44 pm

Not where I live now but I have lived in an area that got pretty rowdy on the warmer weekends. It was just off a main road and occasionally there would be turf wars between neighborhood crack-houses. Now I mostly live in the nightlife district so I have to contend with the noise from the drunks at closing time. Much worse IMO.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed May 19, 2004 5:50 pm

none HEIL ENGLAND!

but then again I have about 30 dickhead teenagers hanging out outside my house everynight.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:00 pm

I never heard any gunshots in my house. Lot of OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone wiggers throwing bottles on the ground though.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:54 pm

I haven't ever heard a gunshot anywhere outside of a firing range here in New Jersey. The fact that it is ILLEGAL for citizens to carry firearms probably has something to do with that. But it is more likely that it is because I live in a nice suburb with a bunch of nice, friendly, white neighbors.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed May 19, 2004 8:44 pm

Same here Murph, but even my if my neighbors are white, they're wiggers.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:15 pm

None for me... ever, people usually get stabbed here, its less noisy and a polite way of inflicting wounds and death without waking the neighbours and disturbing people from their everyday activities

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:37 pm

I've heard gunshots around here once. It was about a year ago, and around one AM to the north-eastish I heard a shot then a brief pause followed by a couple others. Sirens shortly after.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed May 19, 2004 11:21 pm

I hear them on a fairly regular basis. I live in NW OKC, considered the "dark" part of town. My grandmother lives in SW OKC, considered "Little Mexico."

When I lived in the suburbs, I never heard any..But moved to the city a few years ago, and it's a daily thing. Just wondering if anyone else lived in an area like this. I think it's kind of cool, really.

The convenience store on the corner of my street was robbed a while back while I was there. It was funny. The dudes robbing the place let me "go first." so I got my cigarettes and a six pack, walked out the door, and the guys pulled guns on the clerk. I drove away like nothing happened.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Thu May 20, 2004 12:07 am

I used to live near a firing range.

4too · Post by **4too** » Thu May 20, 2004 12:54 am

Down Range

When by dad was stationed at a weapons lab got to hear'em do trajectory tests on gattlin's, and rapid fire "5's" and "8's". Missed the tests on the "16's", by a few years but the rumor was one non-fused shell landed in someone's back yard, ... way over there ....

These modern days I work in a large building down range of "project style" apartments and stands of woods that may still be hunted. Deer are around this industrial park.

So every couple of months the roofer that does the warrenty work extracts a bullet or two, last time a deer slug ...

I and others have found small caliber "pistol" type slugs laying on the roof.

If I'm the standard American Statistic I'm more likely to be shot by someone I know ... or be road kill like most of the deer.

4too

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu May 20, 2004 1:30 pm

ExtremeDrinker wrote:The convenience store on the corner of my street was robbed a while back while I was there. It was funny. The dudes robbing the place let me "go first." so I got my cigarettes and a six pack, walked out the door, and the guys pulled guns on the clerk. I drove away like nothing happened.

I used to be a clerk too. We were two behind the counter and that guy came in with a knife, holding it under my nose. The othr clerk jumped on the guy's arm, took and the knife and the robber ran away.

Some other time this junkie woman came in with a syringe. I gave her 10 bucks from the cash machine and she left all happy.

Great memories.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Thu May 20, 2004 4:11 pm

Speaking about robberies, recently where I live, a conveniece store was robbed (for the third time) but the owner was prepared this time and had gotten himself a gun.
So, he shot the robber in the leg, and the robber ran away only to be arrested later.

The store owner was foung guilty of aggrevated assault and crime against the gun law. And was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The robber got 40 hours of community service.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Thu May 20, 2004 4:53 pm

Mismatch wrote:Speaking about robberies, recently where I live, a conveniece store was robbed (for the third time) but the owner was prepared this time and had gotten himself a gun.
So, he shot the robber in the leg, and the robber ran away only to be arrested later.

The store owner was foung guilty of aggrevated assault and crime against the gun law. And was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The robber got 40 hours of community service.

go democracy!
makes me wonder how this society works.

i hear gunshots occasionally but i live in a small town around in the country so i guess its expected. not likes its uzis or assault rifles.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu May 20, 2004 5:17 pm

Reminds me of a something that happened in Montreal. There was this convenience store owned by 2 pakistanese brothers, they got robbed a few times, always by the same guy and during the night when they were closed. Then they decided they'd wait for the guy with baseball bats. So that night the robber came again, he broke in, saw the 2 pakis, tried running away but the 2 pakis jumped him up and the guy got beaten to death. The two pakis didn't get anything, pleading for legitimate defense.

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Thu May 20, 2004 5:22 pm

About a dozen or two, I guess.

On the TV, that is.