North Cliff Neighborhood Association

Don't shoot guns into the air to celebrate New Year's Eve

Jun 22, 2002

As a new year approaches, people enjoy celebrating in many ways. The use of firearms should not be one of them, however.

Besides being against the law, it?’s a danger to the public. Whatever goes up must come down. Celebrating New Year?’s is not about taking a gun out and shooting it into the air. People who do can face a fine, being arrested, going to jail and possibly going to prison if it?’s that serious. The penalties could be severe.
People usually don?’t realize that the bullets must come down somewhere or, that in many cases, bullets can crash through windows at a location many blocks from where they were fired.

Falling bullets kill. On New Year?’s Eve in 1994, an 11-year-old boy in Phoenix and a 50-year-old woman in Atlanta were killed by New Year?’s gunfire. A police helicopter in Riverside, California was hit by bullets apparently fired by New Years Eve celebrants. The pilot was wounded and the fuel tank of the helicopter was punctured, forcing an emergency landing

Please act responsibly and keep your gun holstered New Year?’s Eve.