irish, excellent post about being close and intimate with the problem so as to understand the graveness (is that grammatical)?.
It’s like me going up to the UP (yooper land) and telling some guys at the bar that there is a real problem on the southern border and that cartels are getting stronger everyday on our own soil. Might get some head nods, but they really wouldn’t feel it.
Thanks.
We had a couple of murders of whites by blacks that made headlines in particular because they happened away from the welfare reservations (in wealthy areas, in fact); in one case some black used the car of one of their mothers to go to the Short Hills Mall (west of Newark, in a very expensive area) - they killed a man shopping with his wife in the parking garage. In the second, a college student in another wealthy area west of Newark was shot several times while at a light late at night (this one was in the news more recently because the lead perp admitted it was part of the war between Islam and the US or some other crap).
Basically, everything in da ‘hood is nailed down or already stolen, so the raiding parties have to travel further afield to loot; as a result, those along the frontiers feel the brunt first. The victims in the cases described above probably assumed they were outside of the danger zone; they didn’t realize it travels with the perps.