I've thought about that too. Doesn't really matter where you live.

I remember driving around the Houston beltway on one of my first business trips to Houston. I was on an elevated road when I saw a sign advertising BULLET PROOF ROOFS. I was kind of stunned and couldn't understand what they were for. At the client meeting the next day I inquired and they explained about all the drunk yahoos shooting in the air on the fourth and NYE.

Yea . I am never living there.

I agree, and as ex-military it scares me. Not that I was ever in live combat but I was always around and being trained for such an event if need be. To this day I duck and/or jump when I hear sounds that might be gunfire. Fireworks is one of them.

I live out in the country. Gunshots are not unusual; not common, either. During hunting season, plenty of deer so it’s rifles then.

Thankfully here it's only during hunting season(s) that I worry about gunfire.

Though now and then there is one fired at 1 am for no apparent reason. Usually a shotgun.

I feel for you as fireworks can make you jumpy without adding in the possibility of gunfire.

I remember when I lived in the city and heard what I thought was a car backfiring - looked out the bay window and there was a fellow running down the street being chased by another fellow with a gun. - Thankfully there was so much ice on the sidewalk that it impeded their running and the shooters ability to fire.

Over 30 years ago and I still remember dropping to the floor and crawling over to the phone to call it in.

Wow that would be quite scary.

Hah! In that case, it's perpetually the 4th on the east side of Indianapolis.

LOL!