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define immediate. it takes seconds to fire thirty rounds. it takes minutes for police to respond to anything

Ten to twenty minutes, and closing down the whole 1+ mile area, like it was a terrorist attack.

That would be the case in a civilized city/country. Else, it appears as if 30 gunshot rounds is like routine in that place, so it's a kind of shithole.

In the west coast city I lived in last year, it wasn’t uncommon (more than once per week easily) for people to drive around in trucks at night (or even in the day sometimes) and just unload magazines into the sky for no apparent reason. In any other country I’ve ever visited, this would result in a huge news response condemning the act along with a significant police response. I never even saw most of these on the news or saw any significant police response.

In some Arab countries this is a normal day time activity often done during weddings.

Well we don't need the police to scoop up the bullets out of the air. If they can get there within 20 minutes, and find a pile of shell casings and dudes with warm guns in their posession, and sulphur smoke in the air, maybe they can do something as a deterrent to future cases, such as presenting all of them to the DA with a nice bow on top.

When seconds count police are minutes away.

the police were already responding to the gunfire as the girlfriend was calling 911

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