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Not in rural areas. People shoot guns at 1am and... "god given freedoms" and "piss off back to the city y'all" and all that are trotted out anytime a complaint is made.

Again, it may change in another couple generations, but it'll be slow.

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I lived in cities for four decades and rural areas for two. Hearing late night gunshots was routine in cities. I think it's happened once in hearing from my rural home. My neighbor is a state biologist who put down a sick coyote.

Or course it can happen a lot if you get the wrong neighbors. But that's more of a risk in the city where you have so many more neighbors.

Wow, which cities? I've lived between cities and the sticks in the U.S. almost my entire life and while I've never once heard gunfire in a city, in the country it's a daily routine (occasionally, if rarely, even fully automatic).

I lived in downtown San Jose for ten years and someone was shot to death right behind my apartment. San Jose isn't all that unsafe either, relatively speaking.

You had some pretty well-off rural neighbors if they shot guns daily. Ammunition isn't cheap. I've lived in a rural area for a long time, and, yes maybe once a week or month a neighbor will practice their marksmanship, but thankfully it isn't a daily occurrence.

The neighbors in rural places I've lived haven't been terribly well-off, as far as I could tell, but they clearly have had different priorities.

It gets massively cheaper when those priorities include reloading your own ammo.

My most well off neighbor is the most prolific shooter I know. He shoots targets almost daily with his .22, and I don't hear it at all from 1/3 mile away. He doesn't use a suppressor, but some kind of quieter round. I guess that means slower.

Besides the caliber, that can also be due to topography and wind.

This is true. The trade off is time, but reloading is cheaper. Maybe he uses subsonic loads.

San Jose, Burbank, Albuquerque. Not so much in Santa Cruz or the Denver suburbs.

It might just be a meme, but supposedly it's very common in Chicago?

In absolute numbers but by rate, it is behind St Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland.

I live in oakcliff in Dallas (area SW of downtown but still in Dallas proper). Gunshots every night and automatic weapons fire once a month. Police have completely given up, granted it’s all celebratory and usually not crime related. For example, when the cowboys score a touchdown you’ll hear a burst of gunfire.

If they're only shooting when the Cowboys score, at least they'll save money on ammo.

I'm genuinely sorry you have assholes for neighbors.

If it's any consolation, not every rural area is like that, at least around here people just want to be left alone.

Personally I'd buy one of these in an instant, I like being able to enjoy the peace and quiet!

Shooting guns here at 1am would get you a phone call to see if you're okay.

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