I just realized, that as a European, I never even heard an actual gunshot.
As an American, how do y’all know to up the intensity on your cardio then? Nothing gets the blood pumping like being out on a bike ride and hearing that crack
Can I interest you in my workout membership?
I live in rural Europe and I hear them when there's hunting and on my town's patron saint day.
I do occasionally hear gun shots, but it's a hunter getting s wild boar or something.
Apparently it's a lot like what fireworks sound like
Out in the country in the UK you definitely hear them, the only reason the meme wouldn't apply here is because there would never be shooting at night so I wouldn't confuse it with fireworks, instead they start really early on both Saturday and Sunday mornings (there is a place within earshot that does clay pigeon shooting and I'm pretty sure hunting too, most weekends). I hate it.
The funniest thing is watching British footage of people using guns to commit crimes because it's almost always grandad's Webley service revolver
Yeah... From NZ and realising I've never thought "is that a gunshot"?
IIRC the audible difference is supposed to be that fireworks have more of an echoey boom because they are up in the air while gunshots are a sharper sound
Exception: firecrackers. God I hate firecrackers. Absolute PTSD nightmare.
It's definitely both.
I live near 13 mile in the Detroit Metro area and wonder the same shit all the time.
Also "Is that shitty truck just backfiring down the road or are they doing a drive-by?
My favorite was when I woke up to what I was sure were gunshots, and called out to my roommate if he heard them. He assured me they were fireworks even though it wasn’t a holiday or anything so I went back to sleep.
Next morning I go out to walk the dog and there’s a crime scene van marking bullet holes in the building across the street from our unit. 🙃
It's really kinda the same -- yokels going 'POW-ahhhh' a lot.
Definitely LA
Stayed at my wife's parents place in East LA over Christmas, yup. All night.
I lived in NJ for a few years and I'd beg to debate that point :-D
when I forget that they do a 21-gun salute 300 yards from my house every memorial day
I don't know how people live like that, I'd be putting bulletproof glass in my windows, and reinforcing the walls with inch thick steel plates to keep from getting killed on the toilet while reading the times by a stray bullet.
Nobody has the money to do that
The cognitive dissonance over guns isn't the worst one, though -- it's the part where a traffic accident on the parkway could leave you in the hospital through no fault of your own, and bankrupt soon after; and that this could happen any time during your car-based commute, morning and night, even if you had a good third-party insurance carrier who didn't wriggle out of paying for care.
Both. It's both. Explosives equivalent to grenades from the niños and full auto gun fire from the adults.
