Got that link?

AFAIK, they've never advocated for celebratory gunfire, but if you have a link stating otherwise, I will retract my statement.

including those who feel the need to be ARMED AT WEDDINGS

but the question is, when was the last time the NRA advocated for celebratory gunfire?
Can you provide a link?

I doubt it would highly offend those cowards though

Probably because no one has brought it up to them.

Do you honestly believe that the NRA would advocate for celebratory gunfire?

So why shouldn't it?

They are not big on small details like 'actual evidence', as they all went to
The College of It Stands To Reason

They seem to think that putting any hindrance on firearms or ammunition of any sort is unconstitutional.

The NRA is no friend of America or Americans.

How'd you miss this:





"Yet there, a little more than a week earlier, the Smiths' 14-year-old-daughter, Shannon, had stepped into the backyard of their home. A single bullet, fired into the air from a point ­unknown, had dropped to earth. As it fell, it pierced her head."

...snip...

"The Smiths would go door to door to pass out fliers and have conversations with neighbors, gathering reports that indicated random gunfire was not necessarily uncommon. Gordon contacted then-Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, who helped research what they could do with a law regarding random gunfire. He also approached then- ­Arizona lawmakers Chris Cummiskey and Marc Spitzer. The group culled the support of then-Gov. Jane Hull and even of Charlton Heston, president of the ­National Rifle Association at the time."



http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/01/30/tragedy-father-led-crusade-shannons-law/22570107/

No more and no less they'd deny health related research done by the CDC...

They fight tooth-and-nail any law that limits their hoplosexual activity. Becuz freedum! 'Murica! :chest-thumps!

there's no link to the NRA approving of celebratory gunfire?

If you mean felons, mentally adjudicated by a court, then the NRA has come out supporting those laws.

They certainly opposed the background check law Obama pushed after Sandy Hook.

And before you ask, here’s a fucking link:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/03/06/nra-leadership-virtually-alone-in-opposition-to/192937

not those bought through an FFL dealer. They actually helped write the Brady Background check bill back in the 90's.
I oppose the NRA's stance on universal background checks, I believe the NCIS should be opened to private citizens for background checks involving private sales of firearms, or for a small fee, a sale should go through an FFL dealer.

And there's no reason to be rude.

Opposing universal background checks IS opposing background checks.

Don't lecture me on rude. Rude is thousands of American DEATHS each year because gun humpers insist on unimpeded access to their dangerous toys.

Rude is open carry gun nuts scaring the crap out of the public from political rallies to department stores.

Rude is blocking the most basic gun laws, like magazine limits, because it would harsh a gun nut's Rambo fantasy of fightin' off the gubmint...and (gasp) cause a slight drop in a gun manufacturer's bottom line.

Rude is torpedoeing the careers of great progressive candidates because they do not prostrate themselves at the alter of the NRA.

Fuck the NRA.

Again, it's fact that the NRA helped write the Brady Bill requiring background checks through an FFL dealer and they still support it, what they don't support is bgc's of private sales, wrongly IMO.

And again, there's no reason to be rude or insulting.

The NRA of the 1970s - 1990s is not the extreme right wing off the rails NRA of today. The NRA of today would not have supported any part of the Brady Bill. The NRA has announced it has changed its positions of the past on background checks and now opposes any expansion of background checks. That is the fact. Here’s the fucking link:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/apr/18/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-nra-used-support-expanded-backgr/

And actually, I'm a pretty fun person to be around. I throw raging parties and no one gets shot. Getting shot is a real bummer for any celebration, as the OP notes.

And you lot wonder why you get stymied at every turn...


Physician, heal thyself

But, you did give me a good laugh with your rant.

but if it makes you sleep better at nite, then I wish you well.

Cranky is how people feel when a young woman is shot in the head and killed because a bunch of probably "drunk" guys decided it was a good time to play with their guns. How about using fire crackers instead?

I was almost shot once because a bunch of drunk people were shooting at dusk across the road I was hiking on.

I don't think guns should be used at "celebrations" where there is most likely booze around.

Yeah, sorry...guns combined with booze or stupid people make me cranky. So does the NRA. And of course they helped write the Brady bill. They did it for the same reason banks, coal and oil and health businesses help write regulations that control/limit them. To make sure they are not too "restrictive".

The shooter(s) should undoubtedly be imprisoned for years.

However, the fact remains that the NRA had fuck-all to do with it. That detail didn't
stop several posters from using this young woman's tragic death as an excuse
to go off on rants directed against "those people.

BTW, if some are wondering about my thoughts about the NRA-
I'm the person who coined the term "National Republican Armory"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172116375

"Yet there, a little more than a week earlier, the Smiths' 14-year-old-daughter, Shannon, had stepped into the backyard of their home. A single bullet, fired into the air from a point ­unknown, had dropped to earth. As it fell, it pierced her head."

...snip...

"The Smiths would go door to door to pass out fliers and have conversations with neighbors, gathering reports that indicated random gunfire was not necessarily uncommon. Gordon contacted then-Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, who helped research what they could do with a law regarding random gunfire. He also approached then- ­Arizona lawmakers Chris Cummiskey and Marc Spitzer. The group culled the support of then-Gov. Jane Hull and even of Charlton Heston, president of the ­National Rifle Association at the time."


http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/01/30/tragedy-father-led-crusade-shannons-law/22570107/


I'm not a supporter of the NRA, but they were supportive of this bill making random gunfire a felony.

another ios always to be sure of your target and what is beyond.

Both would preclude aimless gunfire.

http://www.nrablog.com/post/2013/06/14/NRAs-basic-Gun-Safety-Rules-fundamentals-for-National-Safety-Month.aspx

Period.

You cannot explain that!

A client of mine was injured when my neighbors were out shooting into the air to celebrate a football win. The shot from their guns hit the roof of my barn, spooking a horse. The lead rope on the horse hit the owner in the face, narrowly missing her eye and leaving a severe bruise across her mouth.

I tried calling the neighbors to warn them that their shooting was a danger to the neighborhood, but they were all outside randomly firing off their guns. So I called the cops. The neighbors claimed they were "skeet shooting" as if that were an excuse. The officer gave them a written warning - since there was an injury, to a cops' wife (my client) they wanted a written record of the incident.

When the cops came over to talk to us they told us they could smell alcohol on the neighbors' breath.

If I had known then what I know now, I would have insisted on charges against the neighbors. It is illegal in Florida to use firearms while under the influence. It is illegal to fire a weapon around an occupied structure. Those me should have been charged with both offenses. As it was, they were scared they would be arrested and sobered up pretty fast, according to the cops. They've never fired a gun on their property since. They also haven't talked to me in the last twenty years.

Usually they don't know who fired the gun, like the time I came to my car after a New Year's Eve party in L.A. to find a bullet had dented the roof of my car right by the drivers door. That could have been my head.

They are a respected family and while they are not themselves influential they have done work for many of the influential people in this area. Later one of the sons became a pilot for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and often flew their drug enforcement helicopter to look for drugs so they may have already had contacts in the law enforcement community. Oh, and that son was killed when doing a drug investigation - he flew the copter too low, caught a wire and the copter crashed killing all on board.

Glad that bullet didn't hit you!

Against celebratory gunfire at weddings in France.

I AM SO FOOLED BY YOU!

an Ignore!

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The area where I first moved to was the Wilshire District. I think that area was ripe with guns, because on New Years eve, my first year there, the gun fire was insane: I could hear many rapid-fire gun shots. It was scary knowing those bullets were going to be coming down—anywhere.

I read in the paper the next day, that many police drive and park under overpasses for several minutes after midnight for protection.

North Lawndale.

Bullets fired close to a vertical (straight up) begin tumbling at the peak of their trajectory and reach terminal velocity coming down which is not lethal, according to Mythbusters. Bullets fired at an upward angle might be lethal since the bullet could be rifling (spinning along the longer access), but this looks like somebody shot their gun "mostly" sideways.
Episode 50

I question whether it was intentional.
“They were driving past but the bullet hit her.”

From the mind of Wayne LaPeeError to the pages of DU.........

. .

tradition of "celebratory" firing

...was a part of French gun culture. It isn't part of American gun culture, as far as I know.

in no way does it show them shooting them in the air in celebratory gunfire.
Another fail by you.

And it is not limited to the South, as the link I provided demonstrates. As the link shows, people getting shot in the head by accident does not happen just at "Algerian" weddings.

But where I live, celebratory gun fire is much more common at the 4th of July and New Year's, as I note up the thread.

My French is poor to non-existent.

If she was a wedding guest, that makes this shooting possibly less-than-random.

The victim was in one wedding, and the alleged shooter, "Fahicel L." (no last name yet) was in the other. According to the prosecutor, Fahicel fired a dozen shots "in the air" with a Browning semi-automatic shotgun to celebrate the wedding he was in. Fahicel has already done time for violent crimes. He told the cops that the gun went off inexplicably, because he never pulled the trigger. He'll be arraigned Monday.

http://www.metronews.fr/lille/femme-tuee-lors-d-un-mariage-le-suspect-aurait-pu-tirer-volontairement/mofo!DlNVrjSixNf6o/

This proves without a doubt, that we need assault weapons bans, magazine capacity limits, and much stricter gun control...


In America.