TL;DR: Shell casings found in various Atlanta locations indicate a concerning number of incidents on New Year’s Eve involving celebratory gun fire.
You know what’s a great idea to celebrate things? Discharging lethal weapons.
I mean seriously, I’ve heard of plenty of incidents of there being celebratory gun fire in parts of the world before, but usually they’ve been like, Islamic terrorists firing AK-47s into the skies, screaming Allahu Akbar or some shit. Or like rednecks really celebrating their second amendment rights, in the backwoods and/or their white supremacy compounds.
But in the hood? Surrounded by, actual population? I can’t imagine that that’s necessarily the best idea in the world. Yet at the same time, I can’t say that I’m the least bit surprised that of all the places in the United States, Atlanta is a city that has people running outside on New Year’s Eve, so happy to see the coming of the new year, that their only course of action is to brandish firearms and fire them into the skies, as if bullets will rise forever, and not actually return to earth.
Like when I hear the phrase “celebratory gunfire,” all I can think of are old Looney Toons cartoons where Yosemite Sam is just blasting off his revolvers for no apparent reason, flying around as the discharge shoves him left, right, up and down. Except this is real life, and instead of a single cartoon gunslinger, it’s many people with way more destructive guns than two six-shooters albeit with seemingly unlimited ammunition.
Anyway, I can do nothing but shake my head and scoff ironically at this story. It’s news, but it’s not the least bit surprising that there are people in Atlanta who look for any excuse to go outside and brandish their firearms. And it’s always got to be guns; you don’t see people run outside after midnight on January 1st and start swinging a katana around, and I don’t really imagine anyone sees Ernest Miller going outside and swinging his fists wildly during moments of celebration.
