From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 13:04:20 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> I don't have any stats. I do know that this happens every
> year in South Florida. During New Year's celebrations, many
> people shoot guns in the air as noise-makers in Miami.
> Every year people are hit by raining gunfire. Sometimes
> they are killed. We have annual public service
> announcements before the holiday trying to convince people
> not to use their guns as celebration toys.
Wow. Every American stereotype in my European brain was just
stamped with confirmation.
BM
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