Posted on 08/25/2008 9:29:40 PM PDT by goldstategop
I’m settin’ that up right now. The kids have been stayin’ off the streets by cuttin’ through backyards. I put in motion sensor lights in back yesterday. Thinkin’ about trip lines and disposable flash cameras for in front. I’d like to have the motion sensors set off an alarm. Shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.
Better yet, get a game trail camera. Digital pictures with infrared flash. Trip wires are for booby traps.
I was hoping someone would bring up the rock salt in a shotgun idea. Beans may sting, but salt embedded under the skin BURNS!
I have watched taggers in action and have called the police. They are too fast for regular police enforcement. I have watched taggers come by foot, bike and car. Sometimes they work along or in a group. Their actions and times they hit property are too sporadic for stake outs. The most effective method would be to snipe the terror punks from the distant shadows. Open season on taggers would solve a problem that is costing the taxpayers millions but here in California there are so many gang members and their supporters that this type of activity would result in an escalation of violence and civil war. If your caught shooting and killing a gang member for tagging, the ACLU would make sure that you would go to the head of the line on death row.
Yeah, well your assumed 'Right' ain't going to stop my bullet. Better remember to tell your kids that not everyone believes like you do before they find out on their own.
They do in Texas
Graffiti is one of the processes by which the social infrastructure of our society is destroyed, just as is racial tension, promiscuity, lawlessness, the assault on morality and pretty much everything the left supports, enjoys or engages in. Without all of these things they can not break down this country, and would not be able to rebuild it in the Stalinist mold they so worship. It is natural that they would support graffiti and abhor anyone who might try to stop it.
To a liberal, beset with feeling of guilt, graffiti is Art, and a brave expression of downtrodden minorities. It is to be welcomed and encouraged, and even supported with taxpayer money.
The graffiti started in my old neighborhood about a year before the daylight burglaries, car breakins and thefts and other vandalism started. Right about the same time taxes doubled on my “gentrified” old neighborhood, moving old residents out and 20-somthings in.
Graffiti is like an ad campaign that says, “we don’t look out for the neighborhood and you can get away with anything.”
I agree. Shoot ‘em.
You have to get 5 seconds of video of them tagging and then it's legal to hit them in the ass.
And provide police as guides and escorts to protect the tagger bagger.
Time to bring back tar-and-feathering.
Change that to "other people's property". I know of no one on the left who would remain indifferent to, let alone welcome, the defacement of their own house or car.
Key word I imagine is "BUY"...
although lethal force is not something to be considered lightly, the fact remains that property = life, albeit small increment of life, but life nontheless...
so when someone destroys/steals a piece of my life, my options only include voluntary doubling of my damages by 'buying' the materials to cover suface damages and also spending more of my life at the labor to do so???...hardly...
that doesnt even touch a situation as Dr. B's where live trees had irreversible damage done, nor does it differentiate between the 'kids being kids' and the border markings of violent thug wannabes...
All that said, train yer kids to respect other peoples property lest they get shot by a hard working citizen and gilbo gets seated on the jury...
LFOD...
There is no need to debate this issue any further than to inquire whether the "liberal" who defends graffiti lives in a house whose walls are thus "decorated." And, even if so, if he is willing that anyone who comes along should redo the decoration to suit themselves at their every whim.The reality is that graffiti is an announcement of lawlessness, and a denigration of the rights of others. The people who defend it are a bane on society, even as the perpetrators of it are.
And Stocks! Go Colonial on their a**es. LOL.
“...They’re urban terrorists destroying my town....”
Agree totally. Watched my old neigborhood go - and it WASN’T from us (as kids).
Graffitti started cropping up as the dirt and druggers moved in, and the old city row-home neighborhood that I loved went to hell as the working class/middle class residents moved out.
Most of it was gangbanger tags, and other garbage from some “underprivileged” and “oppressed” types who just had to “express themselves” on other people’s property.
Then the small businesses moved out - the owners got tired of having to clean the tags off, repair the broken windows and retaliatory tagging, etc. Then the large businesses left.
And then the new underprivileged and oppressed residents complained that there was nowhere to work....and it was someone else’s fault (Whitey)...and the Thug mayor and Thug City Council had to raise taxes to pay for the additions to the welfare rolls, etc., etc., and said Thug mayor complains to his buddy, who is the Governor (and former mayor of the city) who promptly decides to try to push a tax increase through, blah blah blah....
Same old story, in any Democrat-controlled city.
But as for shooting? Well, to my mind it’s a little extreme, as I will not clear leather or otherwise brandish unless my LIFE, my family, or other innocent lives are directly threatened.
However, I DO advocate paintballing the buggers with Skunk-juice filled flourescent paintballs - something suitably nasty, longlasting and persistent, painful, and extremely disagreeable, so that it makes EASY for the police to find them...and easy for their parents to boot their a*ses out of the house because of the stench. And if they come back again for revenge, well, then escalation of force as necessary and warranted, because they are initiating the action, not you.
But again - you have to catch them in the act. Not that easy.
Prager - shoot them to wound???? Obviously, he has VERY limited experience with guns, gun laws, and gun handling...
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