What can one say? What can one do?
On New Year's Eve a 10 year old girl was in her grandparents' backyard watching fireworks. Suddenly she collapsed. Two days later she was dead in the Delaware hospital where she was taken after the collapse.
She had been shot in the head.
The bullet came from what is assumed to be a celebratory gunshot fired someplace with a five mile radius of where she fell. The link at the bottom of this post tells the story.
How stupid are people? Yes, that part of the world is semi-rural. But it is hardly wilderness. NO ONE up there is five miles away from other humans. I dare so no one up there is a mile from other humans. Maybe not even 1000 feet from other humans. Yet some bonehead was out there shooting a gun in the air. What did he think? That the bullets just vaporize? Go to the Moon? Mars? HIS bullet went into the top of that innocent child's head. And into her brain. And it KILLED her.
Now the cops are doing cop work. They have the bullet. They're interviewing anyone and everyone within that five mile radius. They're checking gun registration records. So far, no luck.
But this case will not end. The cops will be relentless in pursuing the moron who fired that gun.
I doubt they'll find who it is. It seems to me that illegal and/or unregistered guns outnumber the legal kind. Guns are part of the culture up that way. Daddy's Daddy's Daddy's guns are handed down. Gun show guns abound.
There's a fair chance the gun that recklessly fired the bullet that fell from the sky to kill the girl is gone. Sold, destroyed, buried, melted, painted red and white and disguised as a candy cane, whatever. The cops will try hard, but I sadly think to no avail. The cowardly shooter doesn't even know he is, in fact, the shooter. He only knows he could be because he recklessly fired a gun in the air on New Year's Eve. One of scores who did so. Maybe hundreds. A couple of beers. A little Jack. Yee Haw. Get the gun. Shoot. Hahaha! What fun.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/01/03/10-year-old-girl-shot-in-head-by-stray-bullet-on-new-year-has-died/
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just saying. 
My sincere condolences to the family of the girl who died. 
I had not heard that story...how awful!!!!!!!!!!! my heart is with that family........what horrible news. All you can do is just stay cooped up in your house it seems like. Letting them watch from the windows might not even be safe. Hells bells, bring your cats and dogs in. (Of course, my cats won't go out on the 4th or New Years Eve.) Well, good on those officers who are trying to find the gun and it's owner. I hope they find the idiot turned murderer and hold him accountable. And that everyone in that neck of the woods will not participate in this brainless activity ever again. I am far removed from that family, but I care for them like they were my neighbors. God give them strength to get through this.
