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We do not know all the facts of this sad case and I do hope that people who "play it loud" will sit up and take notice. From my own experience, however, people who have to blast music and create intolerable noise pollution DON'T CARE! In my community, this goes on 24/7 and the police DON'T CARE about it nor does the Home Owners Association. Noise pollution is now a part of our society which affects the quality of life and there is no end to the noise pollution. Even with my doors and windows closed, my house shakes, the windows shake, the floor and furniture shakes. I can even tape the racket clearly on my tape recorder, inside my house with the doors and windows closed! Noise pollution is systemic in our society and cannot be escaped. Ear plugs don't help much, neither does sound masking machines. The noisy people everywhere need to tone it down. I don't care what anyone listens to on their radio or TV, but when it deprives me the opportunity to watch my TV or listen to music I want to listen to, it makes me angry. The shooter went too far and should have found another way to deal with the situation.

this goes on 24/7 and the police DON'T CARE about it nor does the Home Owners Association. Noise pollution is now a part of our society which affects the quality of life and there is no end to the noise pollution. Even with my doors and windows closed, my house shakes, the windows shake, the floor and furniture shakes. I can even tape the racket clearly on my tape recorder, inside my house with the doors and windows closed!

And I always pictured Virgina as the quite country....LOL....

Having lived in both, I would prefer to live in a trailer in the boondocks over an apartment in the city ANY day.

I live in a similar situation. It's hip-hop on into the night occasionally until 6 AM. (And nothing is more irritating than the same bass line over and over again when it's keeping you awake.) After one round of all-night bassing by the neighbors I broke a chair against the wall separating us and the pieces of the chair shattered their back window. Not the most intelligent thing to do, but it was 6 AM, I had no sleep, and it wasn't the first time they had done it. So while I don't condone the shooter for the murders, I completely understand his frustration and rage. Civility decreases everyone's stress levels and saves lives to boot. (A failure to become acculturated does have costs.)

We do not know all the facts of this sad case and I do hope that people who "play it loud" will sit up and take notice. From my own experience, however, people who have to blast music and create intolerable noise pollution DON'T CARE! In my community, this goes on 24/7 and the police DON'T CARE about it nor does the Home Owners Association..................

I say the police don't want to get involved since the jackasses playing loud just may be tanked, violent and armed.