I don't disagree with your post until I get to this sentence.
I'm in total agreement: we can't fix the idiots who treat others like crap. That's on them, not on us.
Here's my problem with going back to the office: the trip in is unsafe. Walking through the bio-hazard that is Shitcago's south loop, the stench of urine, feces, homeless drug addicts is enough to make any normal person physically sick.
Telling me, a licensed conceal-carry permit holder who spends time at the range every week to stay in practice that I, at 60 years old, cannot defend myself from the vermin that infests "the loop" on a daily basis, looking for their next victim to pounce upon is a non-starter.
That the Chicago Police are ordered to stand down and not take down the criminals because "black lives matter" and the lying liberal lesbian licker lightweight lori lightfoot is weak on crime certainly isn't helping matters and the "news media" in Chicago isn't reporting the real situation in the city re: crime, filth, disease, homelessness and more is what continues to make Chicago a veritable "ghost town" because all it takes is one trip downtown "to the office" before damn' near every one of my co-workers including myself, says "NO!" we're not going back downtown.
So with respect because you're a long time Freeper who I've read and respected previously, your situation may be right for you.
It is not right for everyone.
I'm not going back downtown. Been there, done that. It's a fecal infested hellhole that isn't safe.
It didn't used to be that way. It is now. No one in their right mind goes into that city to work.
Best to you.
I don’t know if that’s called alliteration or not, but the “L” sequence was quite fantastic.
I was talking about fixing them at the office per their behaviors, not self-defense. I am exactly like you in regard to self-defense.
Oh, and based on the city to which you are referring, I would do whatever it takes to move away from there. My son went through a program up north of Chicago and we mistakenly drove through Cicero on the way through Chicago. Never again.