I have a dear friend who used to volunteer his time at a local homeless shelter. He finally had to leave b/c he said there were so many violent, unstable, mentally ill “patrons” that made the shelter very dangerous for not only the denizens of the shelter but staff as well.
He’s in his thirties now, and if he doesn’t change I seriously doubt he’ll make it to 40.
Even though he’s our nephew, we don’t want him around. He’s not welcome in our home.
Liberals like to pretend that the homeless are just like everyone else except for a run of bad luck. All they need is a hand up, a temporary shelter or a job and everything will be peachy keen.
The truth is that most of these folks are homeless because they don’t play well with others. They have alienated family and friends, abused past helpers, and threatened harm to everyone around them. Then they try to stack these folks on top of each other in shelters and wonder why mayhem happens.
I’m glad your story didn’t end with “by a homeless man who followed him home.”
A coworker at the university library a few years ago used to like to have her lunch at a small city park (paved,a few planters of flowers, some trees, next to a small office building and across from the Google building).
Groups of marijuana smoking homeless guys started to rival the decently dressed people. One day one made some crude sexual remarks to her and when she got up to leave he said: “Oh, too good for me, girlie girl? I see you. I’ll remember you. I know where you work.”
Like other decently dressed people, she never went back. It became the lowlife park, not the regular people park.