# Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729 "2013-01-29T19:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9581
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9581 "2021-06-25T11:28:58Z")
From the other thread: > [@Positive Gun News of the Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/positive-gun-news-of-the-day/735490/1882): > > You really shouldn’t be firing “warning shots”, although in this case it seems to have worked out OK. You really shouldn’t be firing deadly weapons blindly, with no knowledge of who you might hit when the bullet comes back down - but if you really made that burglar shit himself, I guess it was worth it… > [@](#): > > And, as the homeowner points out, a lot of people in that part of the world would have just shot someone who had broken into their home in the middle of the night. “Hey, I could have just murdered the guy in cold blood and nobody could have proved that it WASN’T self defense, what are you complaining about?” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729)._