Foreign Affairs Discussion Group Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (115896)	9/29/2003 9:11:19 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi Jacob Snyder; Re: "What kind of culture brings automatic weapons to weddings?" The same kind of culture that celebrates New Year's or the 4th of July with firecrackers. And for the same reason. To make noise. It's standard human culture to do this sort of thing. For that matter, 4th of July and New Years in the southwest US sees people celebrating by shooting guns in the air. Police in some cities park their cruisers underneath the nearest bridge at the moment of the New Year: Los Angeles cracks down on New Year's 'happy' gunfire The US city of Los Angeles has unveiled plans for a tough crackdown on trigger-happy revellers who fire volleys of lethal bullets into the air to celebrate the New Year. The crackdown coincides with a public information campaign aimed at educating locals not to engage in so-called "happy fire" to herald in the New Year. ... abc.net.au Shooting a gun in the air is quite safe, for the shooter, unless God really takes a dislike for him. It's only dangerous to the population as a whole, so it's one of those practices that have to be banned on the same principle as air pollution. You'll see more of it in places that are thinly populated, but where it shows up as a problem is in places where people from thinly populated places have just moved to the big city, and have brought old habits with them. (Habits which are stupid in the countryside as well as the city, but are less likely to actually hurt anyone out in the country.) I don't think that they shoot guns at weddings anymore because the police will come over and arrest the participants. By contrast, especially on New Year's Eve midnight, everyone breaks the law at the same time, and so can get away with it. I have no doubt that most of the people who do this know that it is dangerous and that they are breaking the law. -- Carl

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next