From the wikipedia entry, the evolution of CCW in the US:
Posted on 08/21/2011 10:57:22 PM PDT by danielmryan
Flash mobs used to be so much fun. A group of people would arrange to meet in a public place at a particular time and would perform a song or a dance number or some other form of entertainment very suddenly and without warning. Well, the term "flash mob" is rapidly coming to mean something else now. All over the country, young people are using social media and other forms of communication to coordinate shocking large scale crimes. At first there were just a few isolated "mob robberies" around the country, but now we have a full-fledged flash mob epidemic on our hands. Sometimes these flash mobs are involved in "mass shoplifting" events, and in other cases flash mobs are just committing random acts of violence. But it is a very disturbing sign for our nation that all over the country we have large groups of young people that are banding together to commit very serious crimes. This is something that is really unprecedented in modern U.S. history, and it is yet another indication that our society is starting to fall apart.
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Authorities keep telling us that they have everything under control, but these kinds of incidents continue to become more frequent.
Other examples of this flash mob phenomenon have been captured on video in Stockton, California, in Washington D.C. and in Las Vegas.
But flash mobs are not just engaged in shoplifting. Recently, we have seen quite a few incidents where flash mobs have been involved in mass violence.
Back on July 4th, approximately 1,000 young people violently disrupted an Independence Day celebration in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights. Reportedly, the young people used social media websites to mobilize for the event.
Even more disturbing is what happened recently at the Wisconsin state fair. The following is how one local ABC News affiliate described the "flash mob" attacks that took place....
Milwaukee police said that around 11:10 p.m., squads were sent to the area for reports of battery, fighting and property damage being caused by an unruly crowd of "hundreds" of people. One officer described it as a "mob beating."
Police said the group of young people attacked fair goers who were leaving the fair grounds. Police said that some victims were attacked while walking. They said others were pulled out of cars and off of motorcycles before being beaten.
Could you imagine taking your family to the state fair only to be pulled out of your car and beaten up by a horde of violent youths?
Yes, this is now happening in the heartland of America.
But the biggest problems with flash mobs have been in highly concentrated urban areas. In America today there are millions of young men and women that don't have jobs and that don't have any hope and they are starting to take out their frustrations on innocent people.
So far this year, the worst flash mob violence has been in Chicago. In a recent article, Janet Tavakoli attempted to describe the horrifying violence that has been unleashed in the city by these flash mobs....
This year, all hell has broken loose in downtown Chicago. Years of under-hiring have resulted in a police force that is unprepared for wildings and gang violence. Moreover, concealed carry in Chicago is illegal, unless one follows the Constitution.
Tourists and residents have been attacked by mobs of youths on buses, on beaches, on bicycle paths, near the shops of the Magnificent Mile, and outside their homes. Mobs of shoplifters plagued "Mug Mile" stores.
Even in some of the "best areas" of Chicago, people are being pulled off of bikes and pulled out of cars. Innocent people that are just minding their own business are being brutally attacked.
The following is one eyewitness account of a flash mob attack in Chicago that Tavakoli included in her recent article....
At about 11pm last Friday night, June 3rd, I heard shouting, screaming, horns blaring and tires screeching from my apartment...When I looked out my window to the street below I saw a crowd of about 20 young people...directly across the street from the entrance to my building. They were leaning on parked cars and clogging the street. They were screaming at people walking and driving by. I watched them stop vehicles, including taxi cabs, and pull people from the vehicles...It was a frightening scene and I was sure someone was going to be hurt.
The violence in Chicago has become so extreme that even The Wall Street Journal is reporting on it. The following is how a recent article in the Journal described one eyewitness account....
In another incident last Saturday evening, Krzysztof Wilkowski, after shopping on Michigan Avenue, was sitting on his scooter a couple of blocks away checking his phone for a restaurant when he got whacked in the face with a baseball.
At first, he said, he thought it was a prank, but then he looked up and saw 15 to 20 young men approaching. "My first reaction was, 'I'm about to get robbed, what do I do?' " Mr. Wilkowski recalled in an interview.
The 34-year-old insurance company employee from a Chicago suburb grabbed the keys from his ignition and held tight to his phone. A few of the attackers dragged him off his scooter and pulled him onto Chicago Avenue where they punched him, hit him with his helmet and tried to grab his phone.
What would you do if you had 15 or 20 young men approaching you?
Don't think that it can't happen to you.
The truth is that we can no longer trust that our fellow citizens are going to behave with common decency.
Our society is crumbling, and fewer people than ever seem to have any sense of morality.
All over the nation we are seeing some really bizarre crimes right now. This isn't just happening in the big cities. Just check out some of the recent crimes that have been committed all around the nation....
*In Louisiana recently, a 30-year-old man decapitated his 7-year-old son with a meat cleaver and left his head on the side of the road. What made this crime even more shocking is the fact that the son was suffering from cerebral palsy and was confined to a wheelchair. Reportedly the man had gotten "tired of taking care" of the young child. The following is an excerpt from a Daily Mail report about this horrible crime....
A father has admitted to chopping his son's head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it in the roadside outside his home so that the child's mother would see it.
*In Georgia on Monday, a 14-year-old teen stabbed his grandmother and his great-grandmother with a sword. The 77-year-old great grandmother is dead, but it looks like the grandmother is going to be okay.
*A 21-year-old man in the Chicago area is accused of killing his father with a weed trimmer while his father was sleeping in bed.
*A 19-year-old man from Galveston, Texas who claims to be a vampire recently stormed into a young woman's apartment and started biting her on the neck. Reportedly he was "growling and hissing" while attacking her.
*Recently a 17-year-old Florida teen killed his parents with a hammer, hid their bodies in the master bedroom, and then invited dozens of people over for a massive house party.
The hearts of Americans are growing cold. We have become so desensitized to violence that reports like these barely even affect us anymore.
The United States is becoming a very cruel place. As the economy continues to crumble and as people become even more desperate, the flash mob attacks are going to become more frequent and the bizarre crimes are going to become even more horrible.
We are now starting to reap what we have been sowing for the last several decades. We have thrown away the principles that made this country great, and we have taught our young people that morality really doesn't matter. Now we will pay the price.
Best post on this thread.
Thx
I was wondering myself, when the Mayor of Philidelphia went to a black church a few weeks back to warn the youths of that city who had been doing “flash mobs” during the summer because that is where the grandmothers go and it is often the black grandmothers who RULE the families and CAN SHAME any youth to not get involved with this flash mob nonsense. Just wondering.
Agreed, post #57 was accurate and honest.
Can you kindly get me some information on those states that have CCW please. THANKS.
Not a LEO, but it’s my understanding that some of these attacks took place in malls. Anywhere that crowds of people gather could be vulnerable.
From the wikipedia entry, the evolution of CCW in the US:
Thank-you!
Makes me think of those union thugs in Madison, Wisconsin last spring shouting "this is what Democracy looks like!" Which is exactly why we have a constitutional republic.
To heck with these freeloading deadbeats. Enough is enough. I'll likely cheer when a good citizen guns a few dozen of them down.
All about each individuals local threat. Plan accordingly an practice for all possible scenarios with a cynical critic observer who will call ya on BS moves or efforts.
My 8500 pound Cummins dooooge has better knock down that a handgun. Never get out of the boat...errr....truck. Drive or shoot but never try an do both unless yer up to your ass in grenade pins an alligators.....
Practice an education is key but above all else don’t panic .....just get the hell out if the area safely with deadly force a last resort. But ya’ll know that already....:o)
Stay safe...
With hostile intent? Shoot the first five. I'll still have 11 rounds of 10mm left in the first mag.
Cell phones, blackberries, social networking.
Gotta love the way the article refuses to divulge that the flash mobs are made up of blacks who go after whites and asians. That would be politically incorrect - even though it is the truth. Also love the way it stated that, in Chicago, it is even happening in well-to-do neighborhoods without revealing the fact that the offenders are NOT from those nice neighborhoods. As far as how they are organizing, it is particularly galling to know that they are using the “Obama phones” paid for by our tax dollars.
In other words, the people being attacked are the very same people who had money confiscated from them by a government who is using it to provide the offenders with the means to coordinate the attacks.
Your question was not directed to me, but I believe here is another problem...maybe.
It is also summer vacation for those who pretend to attend school. This could add to the mix...maybe not...Just saying.
With all due respect, these scum have no idea what they would be dealing with. Without getting into detail, the good guys are ready.
You are right, they don’t. But their ignorance makes them bold, their hatred makes them merciless.
To paraphrase Sun Tzu: Know yourself and know your adversary and you will be victorious 100 percent of the time.
It's my understanding it's some combination of Twitter, instant-messaging and cell-phones.
Choose the ringleader of the thugs, shoot him in the left kneecap from a safe distance and watch the rioters disperse as young che guevara Jackson starts screaming for his momma.
Nobody wants to get shot..
Victory in this case is an elusive concept. If it ever comes down to it, we would eat the playaz’ lunch and them along with it. But I don’t think that the govenment would stand by passively and let the “poor children” (who are actually their power base) get their just desserts. That’s the only thing I’m afraid of.
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