In article ,
Jim Elbrecht wrote:

I've picked a few nits in my day- but I'm not sure I see a significant
difference of "stray bullets" and "bullets gone astray".

The statement that rattled my cage was Heybub saying;
"1. The chances of hitting an innocent person in an exchange of
gunfire is closely adjacent to zero. Of the literally thousands of
gunshots in urban environments every day, there's maybe one or two
innocent people hit in a year."

Sounds to me like he's counting all the thousands of bullets.

Yep. The earlier part was about someone taking a potshot at an
intruder. I missed the transition to more narrow focus.

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To find that place where the rats don't race
and the phones don't ring at all.
If once, you've slept on an island.
Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"