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IKR! She recently was broadcasting advice that everyone should start shooting into the air at that Chinese surveillance balloon. That thing was 12 miles up. No gun shoots that far. But, the bullets do shoot high enough into the air to fall back down to earth at terminal velocity – and will kill anyone they hit.

"According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, falling bullets can hit the ground at speeds greater than 61 metres per second (m/s). Bullets travelling between 46 and 61 m/s penetrate skin. Faster than this, and they can penetrate the skull."

"In Puerto Rico, 19 people were injured by celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve 2003, and one died. In the US too, New Year’s Eve sees guns fired into the air, and deaths have occurred in the likes of Maryland, Ohio and Texas."

Info above from New Scientist (newscientist.com)

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Author, D. Denise Dianaty
Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Written by Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Artist, Poet, author, wife & mom May my epitaph be "She reflected love into the world."

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