Compton's violence follows successful family

SFGate.com ^ | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 | LOUINN LOTA

[glorgau]

The violence of a city that helped give birth to "gangsta rap" and is plagued by rampant corruption now haunts a family whose success and wealth gave them the means to move out -- a situation no Compton resident resents.

[glorgau]

Roderick Johnson, who was born and raised in Compton, said he knows exactly what the violence can be traced to.

"Guns," Johnson, 33, said. "Guns are the urban sin."

Perhaps it's the idiots that pull the triggers.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Roderick Johnson, who was born and raised in Compton, said he knows exactly what the violence can be traced to. "Guns," Johnson, 33, said. "Guns are the urban sin."

Yeah, it certainly would be drug addiction and dealing, corruption, gangs, organized crime, 70% illegitimacy rates, lack of education, lack of morals, laziness, a welfare mentality, a cycle of dependency, and an anti-achievement mentality fueled by racially divisive lying politicians. Nope, its just the guns, eliminate them and the problems will be solved.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I think the victim made one too many 'Hammer Time' jokes and he flipped out.

[Shermy]

Suspect Aaron Michael Hammer, 24, left, arrested in the murder of Yetunde Price, the older half-sister of tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams is arraigned Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003, at the Compton Municipal Court in Compton, Calif. At right is Hammer's attorney Excel Sharrieff. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

[.38sw]

oh, yeah, it's the guns. Jeffrey Feiger on Greta Van Susteren's show last night was ranting about guns in relation to this case. He was nearly foaming at the mouth about it. He ranted about the number of murders in the US each year, and the easy availability of guns. Oh, sure, Jeff. If we ban guns, so that the law-abiding citizens don't have them, then the drug-dealing gang-bangers won't have them either. Right, Jeff? And if they don't have guns, then they'll become peaceful, upright citizens, and the murders rates will plummet.

Roderick Johnson, who was born and raised in Compton, said he knows exactly what the violence can be traced to. "Guns," Johnson, 33, said. "Guns are the urban sin."

Get rid of the guns, and there will be peace in Comptom.

[RangerHobbit]

A military web ring I’m on named the machete as the world's bloodiest Weapon Of Mass Destruction. It kills millions of people a year in the third world, especially in Africa. There are few guns in Congo. They can't afford guns or else they save the bullets to hunt game (mostly monkeys in high canopy) for food. So Africans use machetes to kill one another.

3.5 million people have been hacked to death in Congo's ongoing civil war. A million Tutsis were hacked to death by Hutus back during the Clinton administration. These are but two examples of the fifteen to twenty "brush wars" that rage constantly in Africa. 25,000 people have been murdered in Africa in one day without so much as a single rifle shot cracking the air. Violent people don't need guns to kill. It's the people that violent people want to kill who need the guns.

[UnklGene]

What was Yetunde doing outside a drug-house? Coming from a "tennis" family, perhaps she should've gotten into a different "racket."

[Diddle E. Squat]

At right is Hammer's attorney Excel Sharrieff.

Soon to be joined by fellow attorneys Jim 'Word' Perfect and Powerpoint Ramirez.

[Tacis]

And, most of the young black men in Compton can't find jobs because they are all going to Chicano wetbacks who just swam across the border.

Look at every male Spanish speaking worker in Los Angeles. Each one is preventing a black kid from working and gaining basic skills. No, there aren't enough black kids to fill ALL the jobs, nor are all the black kids willing or fit to work these low level, entry positions. But, if enough employers began following the law and said, "Only those with the legal right to live and work in the US need apply," much of this violence would go away.

[zerosix]

Maybe the "guns" could be driven out of town by the SUVs or even run over by SUVs, thereby eliminating them from being dangerous.

[Humidston]

Price lives 40 miles from this drug house. She's out with some dude in his SUV, and she's shot in front of a drug house.

Gee. I know when I used to date, we always drove 40 miles to drug houses to hang out. NOT.

Something stinks about this whole story.

[cyborg]

Sad thing is that I heard a caller say that on talk radio. Not sure if this guy was an excuse monger though.