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Please, No Gunplay During New Year's Eve

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Dec 31, 2008 6:59 pm US/Eastern

Please, No Gunplay During New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve Warning Of "No More Stray Bullets" - What Goes Up, Must Come Down

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MIAMI (CBS4) ― In Overtown on Wednesday, church leaders, politicians and police asked people not to shoot off their guns in celebration of the New Year. Stray bullets from guns kill people every year.

Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey M. Edmonson, who said "Enough is enough," was joined by clergymen and police officials urging residents not to shoot guns into the air when celebrating New Year's Eve. 

Rev. Jerome Starling said, "We're sick and tired from these cowardly acts." He asked that people "stop the violence".

Miami Police Chief John Timoney warned his officers will step up enforcement on anyone who pulls out a gun to celebrate.

Firing weapons to celebrate, a practice popular in some countries, and in some rural parts of the United States, is especially dangerous in crowded urban settings, according to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Bullets shot into the air can climb up two miles and then fall at a rate of 300 to 700 feet per second, killing or injuring those who are struck, the ATF said in a released statement.

 

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