Posted on 01/15/2013 1:29:53 PM PST by ScottinVA
Just before Oakland city officials held a news conference Monday in East Oakland to assure everyone that they've got a handle on crime, I took a little walk around the neighborhood to ask local residents if they felt safe.
Vincent Peters, 32, who was waiting for a bus with his wife and their 2-month old daughter, definitely does not. He said he's preparing to move his family from the area because he values their safety.
"You can hardly walk down the street without someone pushing a gun at you," Peters said. "These kids are scared, and that's why they're carrying guns and knives too.
"I'm not fixing to raise my daughter here," he said. "I guess I'm moving to the suburbs. Good schools, less crime."
As I walked, I found it next to impossible not to run into a local resident who hadn't been touched directly or indirectly by gun violence in this part of the city.
Across the street from the spot where the news conference was to take place on the windswept 6400 block of International Boulevard, Alexander Brown, a 22-year-old student, talked about his run-ins with violence. He has been robbed and beaten, and had a gun stuck in his face two years ago.
He relies on his deep religious faith to see him through. "I put my faith in my creator," said the young man.
Literally 5 feet down the block, brothers Boogie and Antwan Johnson, who were walking home, also had a story of violence to tell.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Hope it doesn’t move. Good luck with it,.
If you notice, white liberals don't allow blacks near them. San Francisco white democrats drove black democrats to Oakland. The white flight of Detroit began under the 40 year Democrat rule. White democrat enclaves such as Boulder, Colorado, or Aspen are entirely white, with prices driven up so high blacls are priced out of the market.
Blacks, in their ordinary daily life, are far more likely to encounter conservatives than white liberals.
you just don’t understand. it’s for the children. nobody needs an assault weapon designed to kill people. 7 bullets is more than enough
Actually, this is a pretty decent piece.
Properly lays blame on the "groups" and their culture rather than on evil guns which are virtually banned in Oakland and severely restricted across Kalifornia.
(For the rest of you; ten round magazines are already here,,,unless you are a "criminal".)
The Baby Mamma as straw buyer has deep roots; remembering the very nice old lady I encountered while she was being denied services by a gunsmith while her teen aged thug grandson stood by expecting his .38SW Lemon Squeezer to be repaired.
PS: Last time I had to be in SF I was put up in a high scale hotel in a 'safe' part of town. I arrived in time to witness the aftermath of a mugging on the entrance steps of that same hotel.
I was in San Francisco a few years ago for a conference and stayed at one of the upscale business hotels. When leavingat 6:30 am I was able to see all of the derelics sleeping in any corner on the streets. All able bodied adult men who just don’t want to work.
This mess of our society has been intentionally caused by the communist democratic party so as to bring about a completely new definition. . .oh hell never mind.
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