http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 00:43:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/more-than-1000-shots-fired-in.html http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/more-than-1000-shots-fired-in.html#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:04:34 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=169703 on the 4th of July, 2012, the Birmingham police recorded 1,098 incidents of gunfire (they have a detection system that's able to distinguish between gunshots and fireworks). In 2011, there were only 75 gunshots recorded. In 2010, 495. Which leads me to wonder: Is this random, or is there some factor leading to an increase in celebratory gunfire over the last three years? What social and economic factors affect the number of bullets people are willing to pump into the air?(Via Stan Diel)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/more-than-1000-shots-fired-in.html/feed 52