Solution to noisy vehicles 4820

Let's see, shot fired from several stories up at a car parked at the curb. About 30 deg down angle? Shot hits concrete sidewalk and recochets upward at abt 30 deg (more or less). Bullet deformation will absorb shome energy, so up angel will prob be a bit less. Bullet enters window across the street killing a child. Police note that discharge of a firearm within so many feet of a house is illegal. So the rest occurred while committing an illegal act. We've gone beyone Involuntary Mandissolution to, what? liquidate 2? With time off for good behavior, shouldn't be worth more than seven to 10 years. If not for those damn bleeding heart commies, killing a child to protect a car would be perfectly legal, wouldn't it?

OK. I know I've really stretched this one. But discharging a firearm in a city (if this *is* in a city), is a really lame idea; especially if it's to protect a pile of tin. If you're doing your shooting from an isolated farm house, go for it. ('course as someone else pointed out, most jurisdictions are a bit narrow-minded when it comes to killing to protect property.)

Just to be absolutely silly about it, just maybe the answer is to *increase* taxes to pay for *more* police, so response time can be lowered, and so car-theft is not a blow-off offense when the cop is engaged in dealing with violent issues. Nah. No way. Let's *reduce* taxes (and reduce police etc.)

Paul R