Blanks do exist... why use real bullets, that's just stupid at the highest levels.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
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imagine shooting 100 arrows directly up in the air and just standing there
it's that level of stupid
Blanks require you to buy them, in a lot of these places you already have a pile of spare Soviet or local ammo at home.
I mean, it’s a wedding.
If part of your culture is firing guns in the air as celebration, I might not get it, but I can support that it’s a cultural tradition.
That being said, some people do fireworks in the US to celebrate weddings, it’s not like they have a pile of old gunpowder that they just set off in the middle of the crowd. Guests, or the couple, will supply the celebratory munitions. I feel like the host could have just bought a crate of common caliber blanks and left it in a corner.
Blanks may not properly cycle the action. I know this isn't a real concern for celebrations, but it does put a damper on the fun when you have to rack the charging handle after every round.
But life is cheap, I guess...
Wait! Celebratory gunfire is not just one shot in the air? Is it like one clip per guest?!
It depends, but it's often a few shots from whoever has the gun.
It's much easier to buy people killers than blanks.
I didn't realize this was a thing outside of North America. What a sad waste.
I didn't realize it was a thing in North America. Despite the infamously high gun ownership in NA, I usually connect celebratory gunfire with Balkans, Turkey and Arab cultures.
I've never seen anyone shoot guns at a wedding, but then again I've never been to a wedding west of the appalachains
To be clear I've never seen anyone shoot a gun at a wedding (and I've been to some trashy weddings) I just meant celebratory gunfire in general
I associate it with any holiday that also has fireworks and professional sports victories. I guess there is more that joins us than separates us when it comes to irresponsible firearm usage.
Is that in Texas? I've never heard of it anywhere else in the US.
I used to live in Texas. Very, VERY rare to hear celebratory gunfire. I also live in New Orleans, and it was very common there.
I used to live in both too and I heard it a lot in Houston during the holidays and when the Astros won the world series. I heard random gunfire so much in New Orleans I stopped calling the cops. One time I saw a guy shoot at a group outside a bar I was working at and the cops didn't come for like 40 minutes. No one was hit but if they would have stopped and talked to us we could have told them who it was. Things were wild there for a few years after Katrina compared to before.
Lol I'm going to Houston for the first time tomorrow
Houston is a big place. The vast majority of it is safe and some of it is pleasant.
I lived in Austin, so different crowd. Houston was West Louisiana anyways, especially after Katrina.
Yeah, they are still complaining about it over there.
Common in North Carolina New Years.
In St. Louis, celebratory gunfire is common every New Years and 4th of July. So much that people die from falling bullets pretty much every time, and it also leads to a lot of property damage to roofs and whatnot.
Ive never heard it anywhere else personally, but I would imagine it happens to some extent in other large cities
Houston, New Orleans, SWLA. I never heard it in the other 5 states I've stayed in but I try to live rurally when my situation permits so I can't speak to the large cities of those other states.
Where do you live??
Mostly the United States South but long stretches out west and up north too.
Guns at events is something I associate with more rural or impoverished areas thats why I was asking
I think impoverished would be the common thread in my experience
Gotcha
You'd see it in old Western movies, but those were pure fiction.
Not unusual to find bullets in eaves of US homes.
Nah American weddings have a lot of stupid bullshit, but I think firing off guns willy nilly is pretty rare at a wedding.
Other events, not so much.
Took less than an hour for the comments on this article about turkey to become about the US
I think the charitable explanation is that the US exports so much pop culture and also several of the main social media companies are US based that US Americans see "their culture" constantly reflected back to them causing a reflexive assumption that is often wrong. The less charitable explanation would be willful, myopic ignorance I guess.
In this case, I think most Americans would assume we're the only ones actually dumb enough to do this.
They have a rule against United States news here maybe they should make one against comments that derail the topic to be United States focused. Unless that would be too broad to be applied fairly? Always room for improvement though.
Was this an accident, or were the in-laws involved?
"Oh gosh, I was celebrating and my sister's abusive fiancee was struck by accident! What a bummer..."
What are you doing, in-law bro? 🔫
Darwinism
Since it happened after the actual event, when the newlywed couple was on the way home to, errm.., I guess the bride's sister was pissed drunk and forgot where to aim the celebratory gunfire...
Anybody know anything more precise? I tried reading some Turkish news sources for more info on this, but found nothing not already told in English medias.
Some Turkish forum probably has more. Anybody onow where to look?
The Game of Thrones style of killing off someone who should be a main characheter just as you invest in them!
Play stupid games...