If you hear gunshots in your neighborhood.

[RB TexLa]

Do you call the police or do you mind your own business?

[Speck Tater]

1. Since I live WAY out in the country AND my nearest neighbor

has a pistol range in his back of his barn, gunshots are a common occurrence in my neighborhood.

[jgraz]

2. Make sure you don't need to reload...

[rosesaylavee]

3. Yelling, screaming, banging heads, etc.

That has caused me to pick up the phone. Fortunately don't have that in this neighborhood. We just have some yahoos that think its a fine thing to shoot their weapons on the 4th of July and New Years.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Hey! You must have the same upstairs neighbors I do!

[rosesaylavee]

15. Living in the world with others is a challenge, isn't it.

[datadiva]

4. It depends

on how close the shots are. I live in Stockton CA and hear gunshots every single night. I close my blinds at night and keep a low profile. Used to be a nice little neighborhood. Not anymore.

[goodgd_yall]

29. That about describes where I live too and my response n/t

[whistle]

5. We have a neighbor watch in our development so absolutely call 911

...and then the neighborhood network

[Jed Dilligan]

6. Depends on where I live, but probably not.

Lots of gunfire all the time, I wouldn't think to call. No gunfire ever, I'd probably just assume someone else called. It's not good to talk to the cops even if you've done nothing wrong. If they decide they don't like you they can fuck up your life.

[Greyhound]

20. There ya go. Not talking to cops makes your life easier. n/t

[Jed Dilligan]

31. Is that meant to be sarcastic?

Because it's just true, actually.

[Greyhound]

37. Not sarcastic at all, I won't/don't have anything to do with them. n/t

[Rex]

7. Grab a gun and get down.

[northzax]

8. c: other

turn up the TV.

[kineneb]

9. other- figure the duck hunters are out

we can hear the shots from duck blinds from our yard. I don't worry about the neighbors, they are pretty cool.

[pscot]

11. I wonder if they got their deer

n/t

[napi21]

12. I'd call the police! Gun shots in my neighborhood would be VERY

UNUSUAL! The houses are on 1/2 acre lots, but close enough that nobody could safely have a firing range in his yard, or even safely shoot a weapon in their yard, unless for some stupid reason they were shooting at the gound. I like it like it is, and if some idiot decides to start shooting, I'm going to do everything I can to stop that kind of activity ASAP!

I have nothing against guns and shooting. We go about 45 minutes north fo here to a shooting range and have a lot of fun, but IMO guns fall into the "there's a time & a place" catagory!

[TygrBright]

13. I check the calendar.

If it's one of the "shooting holidays" I just stay indoor with several walls between me and the outside of the house. If not, I'd probably ring the police.

Here in Santa Fe, we have "shooting holidays" and "walking holidays." The walking holidays involve processions and Masses, the shooting holidays involve parties and noise.

bemusedly,
Bright

[Swamp Rat]

14. Other: Duck/run for cover.

[AlCzervik]

16. we did have shots fired in my neighborhood 2 streets over from me and yes i called

the police and while i was on the phone a helicopter was already flying overhead, apparently by the time i had heard the shots many others had been fired.

[karlrschneider]

17. Usually the gunshots we hear out here are those we have created.

...

[Kiouni]

18. Plese add "Shoot Back!" as a choice. n/t

[riderinthestorm]

19. Rural farmland but everyone's posted with signs

so gun shots mean someone's poaching. I'd call the police pronto.

[Solo_in_MD]

22. Police or Fish and Game?

[Trillo]

21. How about bombs and missiles? n/t

[Solo_in_MD]

25. Change to better tactical position and notify HQ about being under attack?

[ChrisF66]

23. Not gunshots maybe

But its hard for me to tell the difference between a single shotgun blast and the occasional M80 going off somewhere in the area. (San Jose,CA)

God I hate recreational explosives

I always half expect to hear screaming afterwords.

Calling the police doesn't elicit much response.

[Solo_in_MD]

24. In MD, I tend to ignore it, since I live in a higher crime area, In CA

depending on what it sounded like, I may or may not get mine out, and always call the cops.

[Seedersandleechers]

26. I can't hear the difference between a gun fire or a fire cracker...

[southerncrone]

27. Live in the boonies, hunting & target practice are common place.

[aikoaiko]

28. Within my condo complex, call police and investigate.

Shots from some distance -- mind my own business.

[SeattleGirl]

30. Call the police. The house behind the one across the street was shot

up a couple of years ago. Thank god the residents weren't home, but whoever did it shot out all the windows in the front of this two-story home. A bit too close for comfort for me.

[madokie]

32. hell thats easy, go look for the brown skinned people, After all it would have to be one of them

I mean what white guy shoots his gun in the city:sarcasm: :-)

[BlackVelvet04]

33. If I hear a gunshot in my neighborhood....

chances are my husband just nailed the groundhog that keeps burrowing under our storage building.

I'm in the country....I hear gunshots about once a week.

[geomon666]

34. I've called the cops before about gunshots.

They didn't give a shit. Didn't even bother to send a patrol car.

[momophile]

35. we called the police two weeks ago for this

my husband and I were both pretty sure it was gunshots and not fireworks. the police just took our info and that was all. we have never heard anything about it since. I even googled the area just in case there was something. nothing.

but I still think we did the right thing.

[stubtoe]

36. It's some moron either shooting gophers or poaching the deer.

I grab the cat and haul her inside till it's over.

[Xenotime]

38. Call the police...

It's their job to protect and serve.

[MissB]

39. Other:

Call the security patrol. We don't get city police here, and the county sheriff's response time is pretty long. The neighborhood has long had a private security patrol.

[rainbow4321]

40. We had 2 drivebys in our former neighborhood

First time we didn't realize it til the day after..we thought it was kids playing w/ leftover firecrackers. Next day we were told it was a driveby.
The second time we knew it was happening. They must have come back by w/ bigger guns cuz it was not pop, pop, pop..it was boom boom boom. We called 911 (from the living room floor). Twice they asked was "did you see the car make/model?"...Um, NO, we were too busy avoiding windows, never mind going out to see what the car looked like!
Next day we heard that one of the bullets went thru our neighbors window, hit a lamp shade and then was found embedded in her closet wall.

[Wcross]

41. Unless it's directed at me I mind my own business.

Rural area here. If I believe the shots are coming from somewhere on my property I grab my

I have confronted hunters on my land in the past. The usual excuse is they didn't see the signs. Of course they had to have noticed the barbed wire fence when they hopped it. I have always considered it a good idea to go armed when asking armed trespassers to leave. I bring along the m1a because it is an equal to any hunting rifle but has a larger ammunition capacity.

[Duppers]

42. normally I'd say yes

but the fact that I live across a wide creek from "The Farm" I'd be calling the cops all the time. The CIA is firing off too often.

However, if I thought the shots were VERY near, of course I'd call the cops.

[Wcross]

43. I live near "the farm" too!

http://www.thefarm.org/

They are a few counties away in Summertown. Good people there!

I hadn't heard the CIA was shooting at them though! Why would the CIA want to kill a few old hippies?

[Duppers]

46. Oh wow! Cool. I had not heard about this

and I'm originally from Tn too, but east Tn.

The "Farm" I was referring too is the CIA camp where Valerie Plame trained.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Peary

But I like your "Farm" MUCH better. :)

[Posteritatis]

44. We had something weird here last year..

Starting around mid-June, I'd hear loud bangs about a block over thattaway every night starting around a certain time, going for a couple minutes, and stopping. They were definitely fireworks - I'd see the things going up at times, I know what they sound like, etc. Every night for six or seven weeks or so, a few'd go off, and it got to the point where nobody really cared anymore and used it as a clock as much as anything else. ("Oh, it must be ten or so.")

Then one day, I hear a bunch of different-sounding bangs. I know what handguns sound like, and can tell them from typical fireworks easily enough. That was definitely the latter, several shots.

A few other people could tell the difference, too - it was an ugly neighborhood, stereotypically gangbangerish by local standards but probably child's play compared to most major cities, where there were shots fired now and then (although almost never obviously at, much less into, someone - nobody's been shot there in ten or fifteen years despite the gunplay), so I wasn't the only one who could spot it and, of course, the cops were called that time.

It makes me wonder, though, if some guys didn't have the idea of lighting off fireworks regularly for an extended period, so that people wouldn't notice a "slightly" different set of loud bangs one night.

I definitely pay more attention to people lighting off fireworks now, though.

[Blue Diadem]

45. It depends, I'm rural small village. If I can tell which way they came

from and suspect they're coming from within the village I'd call. Otherwise, it's just farmers, their kids or hunters shooting guns.