Posted on 04/25/2021 2:41:26 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
I highly doubt teachers break up knife fights daily. Their is a huge difference between knife present and actively trying to stab someone with said knife. I
Middle East
April 6, 2014: A 20-year-old pregnant mother of two, Wadia Baidawi, was struck in the head and killed by a stray bullet from her neighbor’s wedding in Sidon, Lebanon.[17]
November 21, 2012: Following a cease-fire ending fighting with Israel, celebratory gunfire in the Gaza Strip killed a man and wounded three others.[18]
October 30, 2012: Twenty-three people were electrocuted after celebratory gunfire brought down a power cable during a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia.[19]
August 2012: A Kuwaiti bridegroom was killed when a friend of his accidentally shot him as he charged his gun to fire into the air in celebration.[20]
August 2010: 2 people were killed and 13 were injured in Jordan, as part of the yearly celebration of the announcement of the result of Tawjihi.[21]
July 29, 2007: At least four people were killed and 17 others wounded by celebratory gunfire in the capital city of Baghdad, Iraq, following the victory of the national football team in the AFC Asian Cup.[22][23] Celebratory gunfire occurred despite warnings issued by Iraqi security forces and the country’s leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who forbade the gunfire with a religious fatwā.[24]
July 22, 2003: More than 20 people were killed in Iraq from celebratory gunfire following the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay in 2003.[15]
South America
December 25, 2012: A stray bullet killed a three-year-old girl in Asunción, Paraguay.[25]
South Asia
November 16, 2016: A self-proclaimed godwoman and her private guards went on a celebratory shooting spree at a wedding in Haryana’s Karnal town in India, killing the groom’s aunt and leaving three of his relatives critically wounded.[26]
June 6, 2013: a 42-year-old Pakistani woman was killed by a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire. The gunfire was attributed to celebrations for the election of Pakistan’s prime minister Newaz Sharif. Her 19-year-old niece was also hit, and rushed to hospital in critical condition.[27]
February 25, 2007: Five people were killed by stray bullets fired at a kite festival in Lahore, Pakistan, including a six-year-old schoolboy who was struck in the head near his home in the city’s Mazang area.[28]
December 1859: An autopsy showed that a native servant in India, who suddenly fell dead for no apparent reason, was mortally wounded from a bullet fired from a distance too far for the shot to be heard. The falling bullet had sufficient energy to pass through the victim’s shoulder, a rib, a lung, his heart and his diaphragm.[29]
United States
January 1, 2020: A patron who was eating dinner at The Big Catch restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida, on New Year’s Day was struck by celebratory bullet.[30]
December 31, 2019: Texas nurse, 61-years-old Philippa Ashford shot to death on New Year’s Eve, likely by celebratory gunfire, police say.[31]
January 1, 2017: Armando Martinez, a Texas state Representative, was wounded in the head by a stray bullet during a New Year’s celebration.[32]
January 1, 2015: A 43-year-old man, Javier Suarez Rivera, was struck in his head and killed while watching fireworks with his family in Houston.[33][34]
July 4, 2013: A 7-year-old boy, Brendon Mackey, was struck in the top of his head and killed while walking with his father shortly before 9 p.m. amid a large crowd prior to the fireworks display over the Swift Creek Reservoir, outside Richmond, Virginia.[35]
January 1, 2013: A 10-year-old girl, Aaliyah Boyer, collapsed after being struck in the back of the head while watching the neighborhood fireworks in Elkton, Maryland. She died two days later of her injuries.[36]
July 4, 2012: A 34-year-old woman, Michelle Packard, was struck in the head and killed while watching the fireworks with her family. The police believe the shot could have come from a mile away.[37]
January 1, 2010: A four-year-old boy, Marquel Peters, was struck by a bullet and killed inside his church The Church of God of Prophecy in Decatur, GA. It is presumed the bullet may have penetrated the roof of the church around 12:20AM.[38]
In March 2008, Chef Paul Prudhomme was grazed by a .22-caliber stray bullet while catering the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament. He at first thought a bee had stung his arm, required no serious medical attention, and within five minutes was back to cooking for the golf tournament. It was thought to have been a falling bullet.
December 28, 2005: A 23-year-old U.S. Army private on leave after basic training fired a 9mm pistol into the air in celebration with friends, according to police, one of the bullets came through a fifth-floor apartment window in the New York City borough of Queens, striking a 28-year-old mother of two in the eye. Her husband found her lifeless body moments later. The shooter had been drinking the night before and turned himself in to police the next morning when he heard the news. He was charged with second-degree manslaughter and weapons-related crimes,[39][40] and was later found guilty and sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison.[41]
June 14, 1999: Arizona, A 14-year-old girl, Shannon Smith, was struck on the top of her head by a bullet and killed while in the backyard of her home.[42] This incident resulted in Arizona enacting “Shannon’s Law” in 2000, that made the discharge of a firearm into the air illegal.
January 1, 1999: Joseph Jaskolka of Wilmington was visiting family members in Philadelphia for New Years when he was struck in the head by a stray bullet as he walked with family members on Fernon Street headed to festivities on South 2nd Street in South Philadelphia. The incident is believed to be from gunfire celebrating the New Year. The bullet remains lodged in Jaskolka’s brainstem and he was left paralyzed on the right side of his body due to his injury.[43]
December 31, 1994: Amy Silberman, a tourist from Boston, was killed by a falling bullet from celebratory firing while walking on the Riverwalk in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Police Department there has been striving to educate the public on the danger since then, frequently making arrests for firing into the air.[44]
July 4, 1950: Bernard Doyle was killed in his seat while attending a New York Giants game at the Polo Grounds. The bullet was determined to have been fired by Robert Peebles, a juvenile, from an apartment building some distance away on Coogan’s Bluff, presumably in celebration of Independence Day.
My brother used to be a patrol officer in Santa Anna. He told me that on New Year’s Eve, they would park their patrol cars under highway overpasses just before midnight because everyone there goes out and fires guns into the air to celebrate the New Year.
Congressional Black Caucus = the real “institutional” racism.
“If someone had shot in the air about nine months before she was born it would have been better for everyone concerned.”
That there’s funny.... I don’t care who ya are.
The cops could shoot in the air and say “stop in the name of the law”. LOL
The Bell Curve is real.
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Cool story. Where did a teacher break up a knife fight last Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday?
That sounds newsworthy to me.
Effing idiot.
Oh, man, you win today !!
Aim just below the belt.
A fate worse than death.
Biden has an excuse. He is senile.
What could be a bigger fool than a senile liberal?
Apparently he is not alone.
Maybe instead of lecturing the cops on what they should do about knife fights, maybe consider lecturing their children about not attacking someone with a knife.
Sure wish the Capital Police would have shot in the air. What?
From the video it appears it took three rounds before she began to fall and the fourth was likely fired as she fell.
Amazing a knuckle draggers like this could get elected to even a elementary school bathroom monitor.
I wonder what Beatty would say if her daughter was gonna be on the receiving end of the ghettopotamus’s knife stroke.
Shooting into the air is beyond stupid and very dangerous.
A lot like this moron who advocates doing it.
“Stop in the name of the law” says inspector Clouseau.
You mean our current police force is not trained in how to do this? Let's get Joe Biden to demonstrate his shoot them in the leg technique or bring in a few teachers (who know exactly how to stop knife fights) to train our cops.
So you shoot into the air and the bullet goes where exactly?
Do these idiots really think that shooting a gun in a random direction is somehow *safe*??????
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