Posted on 12/22/2018 6:02:16 AM PST by rellimpank
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"Police say Brown found the gun in an alley where a person who was taking out the trash had dropped it. The legal owner of that gun had it in a fanny pack, along with a firearm owner’s identification card, magazines and ammunition.
First of all, it is a sad commentary that this is what it has come to in our city —that someone taking out the trash has to arm themselves with a handgun.
Instead of Brown returning the weapon to its owner or turning it over to the police, he did what too many other people might have done.
In fact, whenever my husband and his brothers get together, they end up talking about what it was like for them growing up in Woodlawn during the 1960s when there was a lot of gang warfare.
My husband always tells the story about how they once found a gun on the street and took turns shooting at a streetlight. They didn’t even think about where those bullets landed. It was only by the grace of God that a stray bullet didn’t kill someone."--
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
What a stupid authorette.
Just think, she is getting paid to write.
Forget about the bullets coming down somewhere. The odds of someone getting hurt are small.
But what about the obvious property damage. Replacing a street light, minimum of a couple hundred dollars and more in material and time
more likely for the bullets to smash a windshield or window than a person.
Sounds like her husband should have been locked up long ago.
Sure, people do stupid things all the time. But deliberately doing destructive acts, merely for the sake of destruction... that is the mindset of vandals.
This thing of the shooter "finding the gun near the trash". It stinks. The ID was in the fanny pack.
It was outright theft. I have serious doubts he "found it by the trash".
“First of all, it is a sad commentary that this is what it has come to in our city —that someone taking out the trash has to arm themselves with a handgun.”
Predators specifically watch for that. Taking out trash on a scheduled night in your slippers while leaving the door unlocked is golden opportunity for home invasion or rape.
Some people will never want to work and only live by stealing. Some people are insane and dream of making paintings with your guts.
That’s the real world. Every day countless innocent people like this lady are attacked and wish they had a gun when it’s already too late...
Well Mary, last Republican mayor of Chicago left office in 1931.
Does that suggest anything to you?
It should at least suggest to you that it is not the fault of those racist Republicans.
My dentist’s office was in an expensive section of Tallahassee. The government put a bunch of Section 8 housing in a formerly nice nearby neighborhood. Now, the receptionist has a gun under her desk and it takes two to put the trash out. One carries the trash and the other carries the gun to guard her. Occasionally, you see people on the sidewalks that lead to shopping areas who are acting weird (having a loud argument with someone who is not there, for example) or simply too stoned to walk normally.
“Some people will never want to work and only live by stealing.”
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You just described most politicians.
Sad????I think it is smart, very smart. Where I live everybody carries and we have a very low crime rate.
She must have watched a different “Stand by Me”.
I didn’t see anything romantic about trains in the “Stand by Men” that I watched.
After all the Stephen King short story the movie was based on was titled “The Body”. In the story and the movie, the Young pre-teen boys go looking for and find another missing boy who they find had been hit by a train while playing on the train tracks.
Nothing romantic there.
But I will also disagree about trains or train tracks being dangerous. They are not. Trains are completely predictable in their actions under normal conditions. Trains travel on stationary tracks at constant speeds. They can not suddenly accelerate, suddenly stop or change direction.
In my opinion for something to be dangerous that thing must be in some way unpredictable, erratic or defective. Trains are rarely defective and in most any way imaginable are predictable. You won’t ever find a train anywhere where there are not a set of tracks. If you find a set of tracks it is generally not a good idea to linger between the rails. The old rules of my youth still apply: Stop, look and listen before you cross the tracks. (which I did every day walking to elementary school).
If someone is struck by a train my first thought is that they were somehow negligent.
“Romantic,” in the broader sense, perhaps. ... of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized view of reality.
Bluetooth. See that all the time.
The romanticized part of that story was the friendship of the boys.
The railroad was the setting for the story.
Since the boys nearly get themselves killed by using a railroad trestle to cross a river I didn’t see railroads as romanticized.
“Bluetooth. See that all the time. “
Not when they are throwing punches and falling down. There’s a guy who puts on quite a show. Scares the heck out of the office staff.
Cop hating, BLM supporting author (aka “Moperah”) must have been directed not impugn these fallen heroes by someone above her.
OFFS! The author sounds like a foo............. Oh, IS a fool.
“...he did what too many other people might have done....” Fidiots. MIGHT HAVE DONE? Could the authors future husband have done the correct thing and: “STOP. WALK AWAY. TELL AN ADULT/COP”. Didn’t Eddie somebody utter those words someplace?
“(having a loud argument with someone who is not there, for example)” Hmmmm. Sounds like downtown Reno.
It was set in the boys’ past, and mostly remembered fondly. Before they could drive... an adventure not to be repeated. You could say that it was romanticized.
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