3mo ago

Groom dies of injuries from celebratory gunfire after wedding in Turkey

www.theguardian.com

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Blanks do exist... why use real bullets, that's just stupid at the highest levels.
- imagine shooting 100 arrows directly up in the air and just standing there
  it's that level of stupid
- Blanks require you to buy them, in a lot of these places you already have a pile of spare Soviet or local ammo at home.
  
  I mean, it’s a wedding.
  If part of your culture is firing guns in the air as celebration, I might not get it, but I can support that it’s a cultural tradition.
  That being said, some people do fireworks in the US to celebrate weddings, it’s not like they have a pile of old gunpowder that they just set off in the middle of the crowd. Guests, or the couple, will supply the celebratory munitions. I feel like the host could have just bought a crate of common caliber blanks and left it in a corner.
- Blanks may not properly cycle the action. I know this isn't a real concern for celebrations, but it does put a damper on the fun when you have to rack the charging handle after every round.
  But life is cheap, I guess...
  
  Wait! Celebratory gunfire is not just one shot in the air? Is it like one clip per guest?!
- It's much easier to buy people killers than blanks.
I didn't realize this was a thing outside of North America. What a sad waste.
- I didn't realize it was a thing in North America. Despite the infamously high gun ownership in NA, I usually connect celebratory gunfire with Balkans, Turkey and Arab cultures.
  
  I've never seen anyone shoot guns at a wedding, but then again I've never been to a wedding west of the appalachains
  
  I associate it with any holiday that also has fireworks and professional sports victories. I guess there is more that joins us than separates us when it comes to irresponsible firearm usage.
  
  You'd see it in old Western movies, but those were pure fiction.
  
  Not unusual to find bullets in eaves of US homes.
- Nah American weddings have a lot of stupid bullshit, but I think firing off guns willy nilly is pretty rare at a wedding.
  Other events, not so much.
- Took less than an hour for the comments on this article about turkey to become about the US
  
  I think the charitable explanation is that the US exports so much pop culture and also several of the main social media companies are US based that US Americans see "their culture" constantly reflected back to them causing a reflexive assumption that is often wrong. The less charitable explanation would be willful, myopic ignorance I guess.
  
  They have a rule against United States news here maybe they should make one against comments that derail the topic to be United States focused. Unless that would be too broad to be applied fairly? Always room for improvement though.
Was this an accident, or were the in-laws involved?
- "Oh gosh, I was celebrating and my sister's abusive fiancee was struck by accident! What a bummer..."
  
  What are you doing, in-law bro? 🔫
Darwinism
Since it happened after the actual event, when the newlywed couple was on the way home to, errm.., I guess the bride's sister was pissed drunk and forgot where to aim the celebratory gunfire...
Anybody know anything more precise? I tried reading some Turkish news sources for more info on this, but found nothing not already told in English medias.
Some Turkish forum probably has more. Anybody onow where to look?
The Game of Thrones style of killing off someone who should be a main characheter just as you invest in them!
Play stupid games...

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