Quoting the article........bmwrdr wrote:The Wall wrote:That's why you don't shoot your guns up in the air to celebrate which I'm guessing is what happened.My best guess too!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2931028
The reason I emphasized the fact that the bullet hit him on the top of his head, is that I have personally worked on 3 patients who were hit by bullets falling out the sky, fired from far enough away that witnesses did not hear a gunshot. Of those three, two were shot on New Years Eve. One sustained a broken femur from a 230 grain .45 FMJ that came down through the ragtop roof of his jeep and hit him in the thigh, and the other was taken out by a .223 bullet in the top of her left shoulder, which transited her left lung, left abdomen, bounced of the inside of her left pelvis, bounced off the inside of her right pelvis, and came to rest in the dome of her liver.......holing just about every organ in between her shoulder and liver. 14 hours on the operating table, 24 units of blood, and a month later, she walked out of the hospital.His wife, Marisa Martinez, realized her husband had been shot when she noticed a small hole on the left top side of her husband’s head, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra told The Monitor.
The third person took a .308 caliber bullet in the head, again, fired from far enough away that nobody heard the shot. Two years later, he was still curled up in a vegetative coma with a large part of his brain missing, crapping himself and shivering continuously like a bowl of jello.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone shooting a gun into the air anywhere near or in a populated area, for any reason other than legitimate defense of self and/or property, ought to have their 2nd Amendment rights infringed for some period of time, even if nobody gets hurt. This is just my opinion, nothing more. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that rights come with responsibilities; but on a moral plane, any sane person knows that they certainly do.