Originally Posted By: Bee
Originally Posted By: DUG
Originally Posted By: RoguePhotonic

If fired up then simple science dictates they cannot harm you, an object can only fall so fast.



Are you SERIOUS? Please for the love of GOD tell me you don't SERIOUSLY think that is true. My gawd man..............................................DUG


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

Falling-bullet injuries

People are injured, sometimes fatally, when bullets discharged into the air fall back down. The mortality rate among those struck by falling bullets is about 32%, compared with about 2% to 6% normally associated with gunshot wounds.[5] The higher mortality is related to the higher incidence of head wounds from falling bullets.

A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 80% of celebratory gunfire-related injuries are to the head, feet, and shoulders.[6] In the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, about two people die and about 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, the CDC says.[3] Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.[7] Kuwaitis celebrating in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War by firing weapons into the air caused 20 deaths from falling bullets.[7]


This absolutely flies in the face of intuitive metaphysics. How can an object fall from the sky faster than a feather?


Mike