Premi Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 How strange https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/brit-doctor-31-killed-stray-22837565 British doctor, 31, killed by stray bullet in head while visiting family in US Local police believe the tragic incident was 'random' SHARE COMMENTS By Seren HughesTrainee reporter 20:37, 21 JAN 2022 NEWS f you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info A British doctor was killed after he was shot in the head by a stray bullet while he was visiting friends in the US. Dr Matthew Wilson was lying in bed in Georgia when he was killed by a gunshot from a "recklessly" discharged weapon, police in Brookhaven have said. The 31-year-old from Chertsey, Surrey died on Sunday (January 16) after a gun was shot into his Clairmont Road apartment from a different building. Police have said they believe the incident was "random". Officers in the area received multiple calls at around 2am reporting gunfire, according to 11Alive News. They found Matthew with a single gunshot wound in his head and rushed him to hospital, where he sadly died from his injuries. Police say that no arrests have been made so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 24 minutes ago, Premi said: @GurjantGnostic ? He's lucky, oh well not lucky ultimately, anyone found him. That happens a lot and usually reports of gunfire go ignored. I had a neighbor come to me a few years back and say Oh my God, somebody tried to break into by babies room! So I got dressed and rushed over and look at the broken glass. Then I say...go pull the crib away from that wall and look behind it. And sure enough, two slugs stuck in the wall. The guns shots were at night, they noticed the next day. That neighborhood I lived in was so bad we got used to sitting on the floor and continuing conversations during gun battles and checking ourselves for getting shot whenever alone and we'd hear it pop off just in case you didn't feel it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 58 minutes ago, Premi said: @GurjantGnostic ? This is more recent, and in a much better, what should have been best neighborhood for police response. https://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/88040-lonliness/&do=findComment&comment=763496 June 6th 2021 Side note. Why is 911 dispatch so bad? Like you'd think I wasn't phoning in a shooting. Someone just bleeding out, please, have more attitude and care less. Anyway. Kaljug, where was I? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premi Posted January 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 Best to sleep with windows closed at all times...? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 Just now, Premi said: Best to sleep with windows closed at all times...? Best to sleep on the floor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 Glass is only going to slow down or deflect a bullet so much. Just as likely deflect it into you as not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premi Posted January 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 minute ago, GurjantGnostic said: Best to sleep on the floor. with windows closed ? Bullet-proof mosquito net ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 Just now, Premi said: with windows closed ? Bullet-proof mosquito net ? On the floor Jaapin Naam lol. Surrounded in Kirpa and Hukam....and sand bags. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 minute ago, Premi said: with windows closed ? Bullet-proof mosquito net ? And lol on the net. The net and the bullet would just both wind up in you. Make pullin it out easier I guess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premi Posted January 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 Better to sleep in the middle of the house far away from windows ? Or maybe sleeping outside would be safer (I'm being sarcastic, lol) ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premi Posted January 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 How can you have "unintended firing of a gun." ? I'm being jokey, but it's incidents like this that Brits make fun of Americans being 'dumb Yanks' lol https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201323 August 3, 2011 Stray Bullet Shootings in the United States Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH; Barbara Claire; Vanessa McHenry; et alMona A. Wright, MPH Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2011;306(5):491-492. doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1066 To the Editor: Stray bullet shootings create fear and insecurity in affected communities1-3; entire populations have been advised to remain indoors at times of high risk.4 No nationwide information on these shootings is available. Methods We defined a stray bullet as having escaped the sociogeographic space or perimeter customarily set by the circumstances surrounding the firing of the gun from which it came, and cases as shooting events that involved at least 1 stray bullet injury to a person: a gunshot wound or injury by secondary mechanism. Cases could arise from violence, shooting sports, celebratory gunfire,4 or other activity. We included bystander shootings arising from violence if the bystander had no active role and was not targeted intentionally, shootings in which persons were injured by shooters targeting structures, and shootings from unintended gunfire when the shooter and the person shot were not the same person. We excluded shootings in which persons were targeted at random but shot intentionally. Between March 1, 2008, and February 28, 2009, we conducted real-time surveillance using Google and Yahoo! news alert services, searching on stray bullet, and the news archives of GunPolicy.org. One year later, we searched for follow-up reports. We did not retrieve articles when payment or a subscription was required (<5%) or, in secondary searches, articles that had not been archived (~2%). Results We reviewed 1996 nonduplicate reports on 501 shooting events; 284 (56.7%) events met case criteria (Figure). Of these, 168 (59.2%) were incidental to violence (Table). Seven cases (2.5%) resulted from an unintended firing of a gun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 46 minutes ago, Premi said: Better to sleep in the middle of the house far away from windows ? Or maybe sleeping outside would be safer (I'm being sarcastic, lol) ? Middle of the house! Rooftop already armed! Basement with eacape routes! Tuniquettes already on all four limbs, just not tightened down! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 44 minutes ago, Premi said: How can you have "unintended firing of a gun." ? I'm being jokey, but it's incidents like this that Brits make fun of Americans being 'dumb Yanks' lol https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201323 August 3, 2011 Stray Bullet Shootings in the United States Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH; Barbara Claire; Vanessa McHenry; et alMona A. Wright, MPH Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2011;306(5):491-492. doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1066 To the Editor: Stray bullet shootings create fear and insecurity in affected communities1-3; entire populations have been advised to remain indoors at times of high risk.4 No nationwide information on these shootings is available. Methods We defined a stray bullet as having escaped the sociogeographic space or perimeter customarily set by the circumstances surrounding the firing of the gun from which it came, and cases as shooting events that involved at least 1 stray bullet injury to a person: a gunshot wound or injury by secondary mechanism. Cases could arise from violence, shooting sports, celebratory gunfire,4 or other activity. We included bystander shootings arising from violence if the bystander had no active role and was not targeted intentionally, shootings in which persons were injured by shooters targeting structures, and shootings from unintended gunfire when the shooter and the person shot were not the same person. We excluded shootings in which persons were targeted at random but shot intentionally. Between March 1, 2008, and February 28, 2009, we conducted real-time surveillance using Google and Yahoo! news alert services, searching on stray bullet, and the news archives of GunPolicy.org. One year later, we searched for follow-up reports. We did not retrieve articles when payment or a subscription was required (<5%) or, in secondary searches, articles that had not been archived (~2%). Results We reviewed 1996 nonduplicate reports on 501 shooting events; 284 (56.7%) events met case criteria (Figure). Of these, 168 (59.2%) were incidental to violence (Table). Seven cases (2.5%) resulted from an unintended firing of a gun. On the upside... you're only thirty times more likely to get shot on purpose? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Premi said: Best to sleep with windows closed at all times...? Like that'll stop a bullet!! lol!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, dalsingh101 said: Like that'll stop a bullet!! lol!! Unfortunately most your house won't. Just makes it so you can't see who's shooting you through the cardboard they make things out of these days. That's the key difference between cover and concealment. Cover actually stops things, concealment just effects vision. Shoot they can see into your house with flir now. Only a very thick, brick wall etc or the entire profile of a modern wall are going to do much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 8 minutes ago, GurjantGnostic said: Unfortunately most your house won't. Just makes it so you can't see who's shooting you through the cardboard they make things out of these days. That's the key difference between cover and concealment. Cover actually stops things, concealment just effects vision. Shoot they can see into your house with flir now. Only a very thick, brick wall etc or the entire profile of a modern wall are going to do much. Yeah, makes you laugh when you see US movies and the cops are hiding behind open car doors in a shoot out! lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GurjantGnostic Posted January 22, 2022 Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 Just now, dalsingh101 said: Yeah, makes you laugh when you see US movies and the cops are hiding behind open car doors in a shoot out! lol Right bro. Not catching me sitting there getting shot a. And b if I am pinned there, again using the longitudinal profile and behind the bulkiest parts like wheels. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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