More Frequent Deaths From Celebratory Gunfire than From Gunshot Wounds

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People are injured, sometimes fatally, when bullets discharged into the air fall back down. The mortality rate among those struck by falling bullets is about 32%, compared with about 2% to 6% normally associated with gunshot wounds.[Source: Ordog, G.J.; Dornhoffer, P.; Ackroyd, G.; Wasserberger, J.; Bishop, M.; Shoemaker, W.; Balasubramanium, S. (1994). "Spent bullets and their injuries: the result of firing weapons into the sky.". J Trauma 37 (6): 1003–6.doi:10.1097/00005373-199412000-00023. PMID 7996596.] The higher mortality is related to the higher incidence of head wounds from falling bullets.

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