The police can take more than an hour to show up if you report a break-in at a neighbors (even with a police station across the street, because cops are busy with other calls and crimes). Usually that respond pretty rapidly to a call that reports a shooting or a call indicating someone has a gun.
I don’t really have beef with the police. In fact, I’m happy they’re around, otherwise things would be even crazier. I don’t care for the saturation and possible random stop and frisks though.
There are actually a lot of people shot by others (intentionally) in the United States that don’t die. As I pointed out in another thread about 600 people are shot on average, in the City of Milwaukee each year. Only 70 or 100 or so of those might become homicides or fatalities.
In another thread you responded to me about gang members. Here is the problem, what strict difference there used to be between gang members and non-gang members has in large respect ceased to be.
Like the U.S. military that employees non-felon gang members as soldiers, sailors, and Marines (I served with a number of them), the U.S. military will tell you they draw from out of the U.S. culture and society at large. I would say the same is true of gang members. And the irony is that some gang members reflect more the charity of Jesus and the Apostles eating with tax collectors and sinners, and are less cruel, than some of your law-abiding, non-gang member Americans.
While I was never in a gang I have known many people in them. I personally know gang members in the 30s and 40s that go to work at a lawful job, pay taxes, take care of their spouse and kids, they do not rob people, would help an old lady carry groceries, feed someone hungry, and shoot someone that broke into their house.
Little difference between them and the “law abiding citizen.” However, they have the added common trait of the average American over personal property and “honor.” They are in a sense homicidal over all of those things. Better to die than lose face. Better to be sent to prison than to be dishonored.
Milwaukee is no Baltimore or Detroit. It’s a far less homicidal and violent city. But even in rather peaceful Milwaukee this is a day or night in a culture of guns:
jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/7yearold-girl-5-others-injiured-in-overnight-shootings-5n87led-185368911.html
I will admit this mostly occurs with blacks and not whites. It was probably not too different for whites when the Sicilians, Italians, Irish, Eastern European Jews and some others made up the ghettos.
Either way… those shootings were not fatal.
Arguing too much over Republican vs Democrat or gun rightest vs those that want gun restrictions reminds me too much of the tribalism that goes on between rival gangs. VL’s and GD’s often think they are so different from each other but to me they are more alike than different. Some of them probably feel the same as they are now hanging out with each other at times.
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