IIRC the audible difference is supposed to be that fireworks have more of an echoey boom because they are up in the air while gunshots are a sharper sound
It’s definitely both.
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Also "Is that shitty truck just backfiring down the road or are they doing a drive-by?
My favorite was when I woke up to what I was sure were gunshots, and called out to my roommate if he heard them. He assured me they were fireworks even though it wasn’t a holiday or anything so I went back to sleep.
Next morning I go out to walk the dog and there’s a crime scene van marking bullet holes in the building across the street from our unit. 🙃
when I forget that they do a 21-gun salute 300 yards from my house every memorial day
Both. It’s both. Explosives equivalent to grenades from the niños and full auto gun fire from the adults.
It’s really kinda the same – yokels going ‘POW-ahhhh’ a lot.
Definitely LA
Stayed at my wife’s parents place in East LA over Christmas, yup. All night.
I lived in NJ for a few years and I’d beg to debate that point :-D
I don’t know how people live like that, I’d be putting bulletproof glass in my windows, and reinforcing the walls with inch thick steel plates to keep from getting killed on the toilet while reading the times by a stray bullet.
The cognitive dissonance over guns isn’t the worst one, though – it’s the part where a traffic accident on the parkway could leave you in the hospital through no fault of your own, and bankrupt soon after; and that this could happen any time during your car-based commute, morning and night, even if you had a good third-party insurance carrier who didn’t wriggle out of paying for care.
Sure and if you’ve got the choice you do things to prevent that like getting a modern car that’s safe instead of daily driving an 80s Hyundai Excel…
Meanwhile getting shot by someone (accidently or not)… Not much you can do about it…
Nobody has the money to do that
