I had seen people shoot guns towards the ocean in the melecon and in costambar beach (in puerto plata area) on new year's eve but I was shocked to see how young guys were shooting in the air (randomly) in santiago's residencial area.
I was standing in a street watching the fire work in the monumento in my friend's neighborhood when i saw a few young guys pull out their hand guns and fired in the air like they were shooting water pistols. They simply emptied out their clips and simply put the guns away and kept drinking. I used to think these things only happened in northern pakistan but seeing the dominicans do it in the middle of crowd was a bit surprising.