> Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Horn, John wrote:
<snippage>
> > So, some firefighters said over the radio that
> something sounded
> > like a bomb. So what? That's probably what it
> did sound like.
> > That doesn't make it a bomb.
> And then there's the question, is it a firecracker
> or a gun? If you
> hear enough of both, you learn to tell the
> difference in sound. Or so
> I've been told by someone who lived on a really bad
> street in DC for a year.
When I lived in one of many "DMZ"s in Dallas, I
learned the difference between 'happy-it's-the-weekend
gunfire' vs. drug-deal-gone-bad gunfire. It was the
rapidity of fire marking the latter, and sometimes
higher caliber weapons.
Debbi
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