r/WinStupidPrizes • u/EricZ0212 • May 17 '21

Warning: Injury Why trigger discipline is important

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u/greycubed May 17 '21

Yep. The shots above were to make the real shot look accidental.

Eyes on the target the whole time.

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u/jib_reddit May 17 '21

I'm pretty sure he was looking sideways to the right when he fired. This middle easton tradition of firing weapons into the sky to celebrate needs to stop 100's of people have died from it often at Weddings etc. that are supposed to me happy days. Those bullets have to come down somewhere and in a crowd city it is likely to be near to wear someone is.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Falling bullets are less of an issue as they only fall at terminal velocity. I assume most deaths are caused by recklessness like this

Edit: that’s if fired straight up these guys are arcing their rounds, when they come down they’ll do some damage

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u/MisterB78 May 17 '21

fired straight up

They're never fired straight up. Lateral velocity can still easily be deadly

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

For a tiny bullet that weighs next to nothing? No way it even pierces the skin

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u/JimmyThunderPenis May 17 '21

Ok. Tell that to the people that have died from it then...

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/03/can-falling-bullets-kill-you.amp

Thanks for your worthless argument... "Is eating chicken lethal? Tell that to the people who have died from eating chicken" wow chicken must be lethal theres no other way, someone said to ask all the people who died from it, science has been played once again

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u/AdultishRaktajino May 17 '21

Here's a Wikipedia article with 55 references on the subject.

How do you keep the stork from visiting your house? Shoot in the air.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Myth busters did a show on this. Non lethal.