Posted on 03/19/2015 4:23:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On the first day of winter’s thaw, I saw two teenage boys on the roof next door holding guns. I don’t know much about guns, except that they kill and that young black men holding them are likely to be killed. I called my husband, trying to keep panic out of my voice so as not alarm my own children. He looked out the window. “Jesus. Call the police”.
After Michael Brown, John Crawford, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice - especially after Tamir - calling the police didn’t seem like the solution here.
“Don’t you see who it is”? I told him. “Eddie and Aaron”.
The boys’ lower-income apartments squat dwarfed by the shadow of our larger middle-income building. An invisible red line and a bright blue spiked fence separate us. Any of our fourth floor neighbors could see them as well we could. I’ve known both since they were small children, but I could see them through the eyes of a stranger, or through my husband’s first glance: two young African-American men, in hoodies, armed.
We watched them galloping with the guns, skipping over the low walls separating the units, and hiding behind TV satellite dishes. Every so often one boy stopped and picked something off the ground.
“Ah, they’re BB guns,” my husband said. “See? They’re reloading the pellets.”
My husband grew up in a neighborhood of long driveways, of single houses screened by large trees on private land. He still has that suburban instinct of detachment, a wait-and-see attitude. I couldn’t stand the tension of watching. Too much has happened recently. Too much continues to happen. We know how this one unfolds. I kept expecting the wail of police sirens, seeing the scene play out. No call to drop their weapons. Shots. Eddie and Aaron. More dead boys....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
whammo slingshot FTW.
Too many syllables. Just like their real names, which are probably something more like "DeAndrew" and "L'Aquarius."
Some black commedieans (Peale and something) have a routine where the guy is a black substitute teacher taking attendence.
“Okay now - where’s A-A-ron at?”
” I saw two teenage boys on the roof next door holding guns. I don’t know much about guns, except that they kill and that young black men holding them are likely to be killed.”
What a pathetic moron!! She’s worried about the thugs with the guns getting killed rather than her unarmed self and kids.
“I don’t know much about guns, except that they kill and that young black men holding them are likely to be killed.”
The second half of this sentence confirms the first.
Few things are more utterly disgusting than public preening for unremarkable actions - this is one of those disgusting occurrences.
Since (as others have pointed out) it is very unlikely that this ever happened, the most likely violence would be her arm breaking while she pats herself on the back.
“I don’t know much about guns, except that they kill and that young black men holding them are likely to be killed.”
Absurd dictum craptum from a prog_lib still driving about with an Obama-Biden 2008 bumper sticker. Apparently, she never heard that locales with high crime rates statistically correlate with strict gun control laws in place. There used to be a saying, a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. I hope this bimbo never gets into a situation where she wished she had a gun for self-defense or defense of her loved ones.
What is "Because they weren't breaking any laws", Alex?
I agree. She’s lying
They are going to choke her to death with her own panty-hose in a year or so. Idiots everywhere.
Sounds made up to me as well
An invisible red line and a bright blue spiked fence separate us.
You don't get to navel gaze about "invisible red lines" when you erect AN ACTUAL SPIKED FENCE.
“Don’t you see who it is”? I told him. “Eddie and Aaron”.
BS meter just pegged. If the story even happened I doubt she had any clue who the kids were but being the good leftist she wants you to believe that she constantly interacts with the people kept away from her by that spiked fence.
He still has that suburban instinct of detachment, a wait-and-see attitude.
You mean his first instinct is not to call the government for help, Oh the humanity.
I played with bb guns but I never shot at another kid. We did target practice away from anything breakable like house windows.
Thanks for that link. ESPN’s Mike & Mike show uses the “A - a - ron” audio outtake for referring to Aaron Rogers but I didn’t know the source.
“I say she’s lying...never happened.”
I second that...sounds made up.
Her husband needs a bottle of Xanax a day. For her.
OK, this is the Onion right?
You’ll shoot your eye out, Eddie and Aaron!
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