I didn’t realize it was a thing in North America. Despite the infamously high gun ownership in NA, I usually connect celebratory gunfire with Balkans, Turkey and Arab cultures.
I associate it with any holiday that also has fireworks and professional sports victories. I guess there is more that joins us than separates us when it comes to irresponsible firearm usage.
I used to live in both too and I heard it a lot in Houston during the holidays and when the Astros won the world series. I heard random gunfire so much in New Orleans I stopped calling the cops. One time I saw a guy shoot at a group outside a bar I was working at and the cops didn’t come for like 40 minutes. No one was hit but if they would have stopped and talked to us we could have told them who it was. Things were wild there for a few years after Katrina compared to before.
Houston, New Orleans, SWLA. I never heard it in the other 5 states I’ve stayed in but I try to live rurally when my situation permits so I can’t speak to the large cities of those other states.
I think the charitable explanation is that the US exports so much pop culture and also several of the main social media companies are US based that US Americans see “their culture” constantly reflected back to them causing a reflexive assumption that is often wrong. The less charitable explanation would be willful, myopic ignorance I guess.
They have a rule against United States news here maybe they should make one against comments that derail the topic to be United States focused. Unless that would be too broad to be applied fairly? Always room for improvement though.
I didn’t realize this was a thing outside of North America. What a sad waste.
I didn’t realize it was a thing in North America. Despite the infamously high gun ownership in NA, I usually connect celebratory gunfire with Balkans, Turkey and Arab cultures.
I’ve never seen anyone shoot guns at a wedding, but then again I’ve never been to a wedding west of the appalachains
To be clear I’ve never seen anyone shoot a gun at a wedding (and I’ve been to some trashy weddings) I just meant celebratory gunfire in general
You’d see it in old Western movies, but those were pure fiction.
I associate it with any holiday that also has fireworks and professional sports victories. I guess there is more that joins us than separates us when it comes to irresponsible firearm usage.
Is that in Texas? I’ve never heard of it anywhere else in the US.
I used to live in Texas. Very, VERY rare to hear celebratory gunfire. I also live in New Orleans, and it was very common there.
I used to live in both too and I heard it a lot in Houston during the holidays and when the Astros won the world series. I heard random gunfire so much in New Orleans I stopped calling the cops. One time I saw a guy shoot at a group outside a bar I was working at and the cops didn’t come for like 40 minutes. No one was hit but if they would have stopped and talked to us we could have told them who it was. Things were wild there for a few years after Katrina compared to before.
I lived in Austin, so different crowd. Houston was West Louisiana anyways, especially after Katrina.
Yeah, they are still complaining about it over there.
Lol I’m going to Houston for the first time tomorrow
Houston is a big place. The vast majority of it is safe and some of it is pleasant.
Common in North Carolina New Years.
Houston, New Orleans, SWLA. I never heard it in the other 5 states I’ve stayed in but I try to live rurally when my situation permits so I can’t speak to the large cities of those other states.
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Where do you live??
Mostly the United States South but long stretches out west and up north too.
Guns at events is something I associate with more rural or impoverished areas thats why I was asking
I think impoverished would be the common thread in my experience
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Not unusual to find bullets in eaves of US homes.
Nah American weddings have a lot of stupid bullshit, but I think firing off guns willy nilly is pretty rare at a wedding.
Other events, not so much.
Took less than an hour for the comments on this article about turkey to become about the US
I think the charitable explanation is that the US exports so much pop culture and also several of the main social media companies are US based that US Americans see “their culture” constantly reflected back to them causing a reflexive assumption that is often wrong. The less charitable explanation would be willful, myopic ignorance I guess.
In this case, I think most Americans would assume we’re the only ones actually dumb enough to do this.
They have a rule against United States news here maybe they should make one against comments that derail the topic to be United States focused. Unless that would be too broad to be applied fairly? Always room for improvement though.