{"id":8731,"date":"2025-03-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8731"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:36:12","slug":"the-danger-from-bullets-falling-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-danger-from-bullets-falling-from-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DANGER FROM  BULLETS FALLING FROM THE SKY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been through half a dozen major homicide investigation and officer-involved shooting investigation courses and several shorter ones. In many of those, forensic pathologists showed us pictures of corpses made dead by bullets that \u201cfell from the sky.\u201d&nbsp; Some cultures, including some subcultures in the US unfortunately, shoot joyously into the air in what is known as \u201ccelebratory gunfire.\u201d The Fourth of July and New Year\u2019s Eve are particular spike points for this sort of reckless stupidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the Mythbuster\u2019s TV show to General Julian Hatcher in the past tests have been done which purport to show that the falling bullets don\u2019t have the power to kill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, no one ever told the bullets. Thanks to Greg Ellifretz, one of the great self-defense trainers of our time, for calling our attention to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ammo.com\/research\/stray-bullet-death-statistics\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been through half a dozen major homicide investigation and officer-involved shooting investigation courses and several shorter ones. In many of those, forensic pathologists showed us pictures of corpses made dead by bullets that \u201cfell from the sky.\u201d&nbsp; Some cultures, including some subcultures in the US unfortunately, shoot joyously into the air in what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions\/8732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}