My GSD got in a dogfight...what happened? - Page 3

So a bullet shot straight up into the air will not come down with enough velocity to kill someone?  Hans, is that what you are saying?  Terminal velocity is the speed that the projectile is traveling when it hits its target.  I can assure you that a bullet fired straight up in the air comes down with enough "terminal velocity" to seriously injure or kill someone.  Naturally, point of impact and size of the round will determine how much damage is done. 

People have been seriously injured or killed every new years when irresponsible people fire into the air at New Years. If you cannot be responsible where a bullet is going to stop, you have no business fireing off a gun.

@GSDNewbie: I agree. People who are irresponsible with firearms haven't any more business firing guns than you do posting in my thread about more of this nonsense. It seems as though the people who are quickest to sound off about firearm safety are those who know the least acquainted with guns. Though there are always exceptions, the experience gained ththrough familiarity produces a much safer atmosphere as far as firearms are concerned. I feel significantly more confident in terms of safety in a place where firearms are integrated into failure life than I would next to any ons of those who own a gun, never fire it, are afraid it, and would rather run their mouth about it in on dog forum. Take your incessant babbling to thr.com.

When you make a post public you have to deal that we all have a right to say what we think. I fight for gun rights to remain ours to keep. Irresponsible gun owners like firing into the air are counter productive to that goal. I have held and maintained a carry permit for many years and attend classes and practice regularly. The actions displayed here give ammo to people that want that right taken away. As far as the dog issue, use a water hose or a limb please, or hey build a fence perhaps. Just some thoughts that do not have a chance to injure others.




           ps I also worked volunteer on rescue squad and have seen first hand damage and tradgety actions like yours results in.

You have the right to weigh in any topic you wish, but I take exception to you hijacking my thread with this garbage argument. Tell you what, just for you, I'll go find the .22wmr bullet my wife shot in the air (might take me some time to comb the hundreds of UNINHABITED acreage around the house), and I'll mail it to you for safe and proper disposal.

Are you sure that was a pit bull? I didnt know less than a firecracker pop would drive one off. You are lucky, I think you must have been attacked by a thunder chicken as we call them.

You just proved my point. The wmr was not shot out of a rifle, but a small pistol...big difference. Go away unless you know more about dogs than you do guns, in which case you should probably find a different website anyway. I'm here about the dogs.

1.Your dog was defending its territory.

2. Pit bulls (all terriers) are bred to kill small animals and other dogs.

Do the math. 

In some states, a roaming dog that comes onto your property and attacks or menaces your livestock or dog can be killed with no legal repercussions to the property owner.

Slamdunc.
There were 5 sentences> How can you not understand??!
I said that the bullet is not coming down with the "about the same" speed as it had when it was fired. The speed is much smaller. And then I have said that "it is still dangerous".
Meaning: As in it can kill someone or injure someone. But it is not about the "same" speed, as you state. It could be 10x smaller.
I hope that  more elementary explanation above will help your to understand what I have said and meant to say.
 There was passed Shannon's  Law in AZ against firing straight up into the air. It  was named after 14 years Shannon Smith who was killed instantly while talking on the cell phone in front of her house by a stray bullet shot straight into the air..
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/12/31/20091231shannon1231.html
Prager Hans

@prager: you are correct. I eluded in an earlier post to newton's 2nd law of motion, whereby all objects free fall at 9.8 m/s. I misremembered the unit of distance and quoted ft. per second as 11th grade physics took place some time ago :-D