# I'm hearing gunfire right now **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 16, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373 "2000-09-16T01:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/21 "2000-09-17T06:47:29Z")
Ah, but you can take comfort that another fine American tradition is flourishing.The excercising of a citizens rights or something …whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/22 "2000-09-17T12:23:36Z")
I guess I should’ve been specific. I live in Richfield, which is a SW suburb of Mpls. The Kenwood/Lake of the Isles/Lake Calhoun/Lake Harriet area is still pretty nice. The Broadway area is not. While I wouldn’t be actually fearful of walking around any area in the Twin Cities late at night and by myself, there are some zones where I’d be a bit more cautious (Broadway, Powderhorn and Franklin Ave in Mpls; Selby-Dale and Frogtown in St. Paul). I guess we Twin Citians don’t need to buy Kevlar parkas…yet. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/23 "2000-09-17T12:29:13Z")
Did you find out what the shooting was about yet? ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/24 "2000-09-17T12:49:06Z")
Nope, but then I haven’t been watching the news. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/25 "2000-09-17T13:08:50Z")
Yikes, hope things are okay down there. We don’t have a lot of gun problems here, just the occasional small time drug war which has been going on for over a year now. Every few months there are drive bys but its most often in one area of town. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/26 "2000-09-17T13:37:46Z")
**Richfield!** That’s about as due South of Minneapolis as you can get. Depending upon what part of it your in, it can get pretty bad down there too. Sorry about the shoot-out, unless someone got hit, I doubt your going to read about it or see it on T.V… ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/27 "2000-09-17T13:43:54Z")
I grew up in Minneapolis south of Minnehaha Falls…near the airport. Where I live is almost due west of there. That’s why I think of Richfield as west rather than south. Edina is west of me; Minneapolis is east, and north. So I’m SW. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/28 "2000-09-17T15:00:22Z")
When I no longer hear gunfire, I know the bars are closed. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/29 "2000-09-17T15:14:46Z")
No offense intended **Rysdad**. I was just surprised it was Richfield and not the Broadway area. Ever find out what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/30 "2000-09-17T15:16:09Z")
There used to be a gang in the neighbourhood. Or maybe it was a nearby neighbourhood. Several years ago it was fairly common to hear gunshots. A few times there was firing in the alley behind my apartment (and this isn’t all that bad a neighbourhood). I decided that the _next_ time someone was shooting in the alley I’d call out, “Do you _mind_? People are trying to _sleep_!” But the situation has improved and I haven’t heard any violence for a long, long time. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/31 "2000-09-17T16:09:14Z")
I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where nightly I used to know when a drug deal went bad: by the blasting sound of an automatic, followed by the sounding of car alarms throughout a 1-mile radius because the shots were so loud. Now, I hear the gunfire only occasionally. Must be from another cop shooting. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/32 "2000-09-17T19:48:06Z")
Jeez, it cant be like that all the time over there can it? Round here if someone opens a shook up can of coke it’s in the headlines. Is it really that much part of the scenery that you’ve grown blase about it? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373/33 "2000-09-17T20:11:26Z")
Sheeee-it, I hear gun fire all the time (well, mostly on the weekends) when the yeehaw redneck hillbillies are out shooting at god knows what. All I know is that it makes my dog very very nervous. I could only hope for a bunch of the Hatfeilds to shoot it out with the McCoys. The idiots are probably shooting squirrels cause “thems good eatin’” or " God told us to do it". Sorry , I’m raving. However, the small ( 15,000 population) of Brandon Twnshp where I am, a couple of years ago, there was a guy who was actually on the FBI and Interpol Most Wanted List. Something about fraud and money laundering, IIRC, but I was like, " Here? In podunk? Land of No Pizza Delivery? We have a James Bond villian kinda guy? Get out!" [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hearing-gunfire-right-now/33373.md?page=1)