Why not fire blanks? One must be a real idiot to be firing live rounds into the air.
Yeah, and that's exactly the kind of person who would point a gun with (hopefully) a blank at a friend and pull the trigger as a joke. Unfortunately for the friend, that concussive force still might kill them.
The better approach is to keep guns out of the hands of untrained, non-professionals. And since most people don't have a professional need to shoot guns, that means most people shouldn't ever touch a gun.
Blanks can kill too, by the way.
Why not just use fire crackers?
Nothing is any fun anymore.
Still want to gentrify my neighborhood?