[Ed Condon]

“17 shots and he didn’t hit his target.....high, drunk, or just a lousy shot?”
When you be holdin’ the gun sideways, gangsta style, it be hard to hit stuff wid dose hot shell casings fallin’ in your shirt.

[CIB-173RDABN]

When you be holdin’ the gun sideways, gangsta style, it be hard to hit stuff wid dose hot shell casings fallin’ in your shirt.

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Mythbusters did a segment on this ... and you are correct, you are not going to hit (anything you are aiming at) holding a pistol sideways.

Does not mean you will not hit something or someone else

[Impala64ssa]

When you be holdin’ the gun sideways, gangsta style, it be hard to hit stuff wid dose hot shell casings fallin’ in your shirt.
Maybe Spike Lee unwittingly performed an important public service by glamorizing that sideways shooting method. Even John Wayne, Annie Oakley, Roy Rogers, or the Lone Ranger couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if they shot that way.