Maybe she should set out some booby traps.
BainsBane (9,320 posts)
Gun shots out my window, AGAIN
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Someone just drove by and unloaded their gun on the street outside my window. This is the fourth time in the past 18 months I've had to call 911 about gun fire. It seems to be more frequent, and 911 seemed less concerned than the other times. One time they unloaded a bunch of rounds into an apartment building. I'm not going to my window to see who or what was shot. I'm not suicidal. I hope they send the police to check it out. This being Minneapolis, you never know. We have one of the worst police departments in the country.
So you gun enthusiasts who live in small towns and rural areas, understand this is how we in the inner city experience guns.
Why would you call the police?
More guns just make it worse.
Right?
Besides you're just feeding the NRAs propaganda that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Warpy (69,097 posts)
34. One of your neighbors has likely pissed off a drug dealer
Most of the gunfire in my 'hood are pitched battles between cars one street over or drunks firing into the air on holidays.
My city reflexes are good: turn out the lights, sit on the floor, and wait for the punks to go away.
Some neighborhoods are bad enough for this that they put the kids to sleep in the bathtub to keep them safe.
And yes, this is how city people experience guns. This is why we want fewer of them out there with liability insurance required plus taxes on ammo. Having everything the NRA's way is not working for anybody but the jokers who are so frightened of life that they think they need a home arsenal.
**** 'em. And **** guns.
Yes, I'm sure the shooters will heed all those laws right along with all the other laws they obey.
BainsBane (9,320 posts)
7. Yep, cops did come
They are down the block. Staying safe is why I don't go look out windows, especially at night when my lights are on and the shooters can see me better than I see can see them.
Another one who cowers in fear waiting for others to save them.
Meanwhile, those of us who would defend our own families are supposed to yield our rights to these pussies.
BainsBane (9,320 posts)
11. This really isn't that crappy of a neighborhood
exactly. There are many far worse in the city. It does border against a busy street with a lot of apt buildings though. So they generally drive down the busy street and shoot out of the car. The cops must have found something a couple of blocks down (the direction I heard the car drive after the shots) since they've been there a while.
Any neighborhood with you in it is a crappy neighborhood.
And I bet when they're done shooting up your neighborhood they get loaded on CONTROLLED substances then wake up at noon, put on a new "Justice for Trayvon" shirt and set out to renew their EBT cards.
Warren DeMontague (46,271 posts)
33. Nope.
Guns have always, personally, given me the creeps. Bigtime.
But I did buy the narrative about the NRA being instrumental in the 1994 election debacle, and I figured it was a loser issue for us nationally, politically. It still may be, but I don't care. There has to be room for some commonsense regulations.
But he defends porn depicting rape.
geomon666 (5,746 posts)
38. This kind of reminds me of the cops here in Miami.
When I'd call about people shooting guns in the park across from my house at the time and they said sure, yeah, we'll send an officer and they never show up. Good times man.
But the government loves us and wants to protect us.
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