What's up with all the shootings???

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Is it me or does is just seem like there are lots of shootings lately??? Seems like every other night on the local news something happens. Tonight some crazy ass shooting in Dracut. It's starting to piss me off. I'm sure most are not licensed users but it still kills me... asses in this world.
 
derek said:
IMO there is no fear of punishment.
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I'm thinking there is more to it than that. Perhaps a larger scale of moral breakdown in society? Or just a genetics anomaly and more A-holes are getting older and more violent? I guess I should be grateful my mind can't comprehend such pathetic and cowardly behavior.
 
I can't recall seeing many, if any shooting in NH covered in the press lately. Maybe NH is just a little bit more polite?
 
Nashmack said:
I can't recall seeing many, if any shooting in NH covered in the press lately. Maybe NH is just a little bit more polite?
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Perhaps. It could also be because New Hampshire has a significantly higher percent of the population that is armed.

Lott Review
 
Probably a combination of factors.

1) violent criminals are not being kept behind bars.

2) regular parade of murders (not all have been shootings) numbs the public

3) lack of any arrests in most cases leads others to believe they can get away with it.

4) More people getting away with it sets example for others.

5) borderline mental states are reminded of the option.

No criminal expects to be caught. If they did, it's unlikely they would commit a violent crime. That said, even if caught, the people most likely to commit such crimes have no fear of a lax justice system.

Oh, and the likelyhood of a violent criminal running into a victim that will fight back to the point they are in fear of their life is statisticly insignificant in MA.
 
Your not even safe on a roof in Mattapan..

Confirmed Shooting at 1218 Blue Hill Avenue
Tonight at 10:16pm, officers from District 3 responded to 1218 Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan for a report of a person shot. On arrival officers located a victim on the roof of that address suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was transported to the Boston Medical Center where he was treated for a non-life threatening injury.
 
Lugnut said:
Is it me or does is just seem like there are lots of shootings lately??? Seems like every other night on the local news something happens. Tonight some crazy ass shooting in Dracut. It's starting to piss me off. I'm sure most are not licensed users but it still kills me... asses in this world.
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I'll toss in another option:

The media, trying to help Mumbles, Bloomberg, etc., are reporting more shootings to make it seem like we're in the middle of an epidemic.

If people think that we're in the middle of some giant upswing in violent gun crime, they'll be more likely to support more sweeping gun control legislation.

IOW, BOHICA.
 
C-pher said:
Not to mention that parents don't disipline thier kids anymore. Just ask Jay I think...he had a good speaking to by some person that was just passing by...

So people are afriad to do it, some are just too lazy. But kids have no fear of authority anymore.
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I didn't just get spoken to - they called the cops on me. Two MA state cops (it was a state preservation campground) came to interview me, my wife, and my son.

Most humiliating experience of my life.

I will *never* discipline my kids in public again - so the next time you're at a restaurant and some kid is running wild, don't automatically assume the parents don't want to discipline them. It's quite possible they're too scared to do anything...
 
Jay G said:
<SNIP> It's quite possible they're too scared to do anything...
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I hate to be the heavy here, and I don't know the circumstances of your incident... but I have to seriously disagree with that.

No, you can't slap the kid silly as we did back in the day, but showing a firm hand shouldn't be something to be afraid of as a parent.

IMHO

RJ
 
Yea, when I get a stern voice in the grocery, I hate the looks I get by people. Like I'm going to pull her head off...yet when I carry her out of the store kicking and screaming under my arm like a sack of potatoes, people don't seem to care as much...

It's really weird.
 
I get quite effective results by staring straight at the kids in the eye with a (You're NOT gonna like how this turns out) look, and in a loud, deep and penetrating voice say ONE and stick out a finger. I usually start to lean a little toward my hand, and if I have to get to two, I start moving toward her, and say TWO....

I've never actually made it to 3, I think I intimidate her enough, and she can imagine what will come if I ever actually have to make it to 3...

MAN, I hope I don't ever get called out, I'm not sure what will come with 3...

When I was a kid, 3 was followed by either a belt, or Razor Strop!
 
Well, to make a long story short, I got a visit from not one but two MA State Police officers because I gave my son a spanking consisting of three open-handed swats on the butt. Someone objected to my use of corporal punishment and called the cops.

So, yes, I am VERY afraid to TOUCH my kids in public. Heck, I don't even like raising my voice.

Jaxon said:
I hate to be the heavy here, and I don't know the circumstances of your incident... but I have to seriously disagree with that.

No, you can't slap the kid silly as we did back in the day, but showing a firm hand shouldn't be something to be afraid of as a parent.

IMHO

RJ
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I have no idea if this is true or not

But I heard or read somewhere that back in the 90's (I wasn't here then)
they actually got tough on the gang bangers in boston and locked a bunch of them up and now they are starting to get out and going back to work.

Seems more logicial than blaming it on the heat. It gets hot every summer.
 
Yea, my mom had a wooden spoon that followed three.

And it's getting to the point where I can do the same. Or just say that we're going to go out to the car, and she pipes down.

But until she started learning...it was a different story.

Adam, you've met Colin, he can do that with Hadley really quick.

But I think that it has to do with other people not being her parents, and she's thinking that she can get away more and be more relaxed around us...
 
My younger granddaughter has finally learned that when I start counting to three, I'm deadly serious. She's also starting to pick up on the fact that I keep a running count, which means if she stops doing something after I get to "two", then starts up a few minutes later, the "one" and "two" are simplly assumed, and the first number she'll hear will be "three". [shocked]

Ken
 
When my dad got to "three" it was his open hand - no belts, strops or paddles needed. He wasn't very tall, but he could pack a hell of a wallop. I tried to make sure that he didn't need to get to three very often.
 
C-pher said:
Yea, my mom had a wooden spoon that followed three.
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My grandmother had a wooden spoon...I found it and hid it on her one day probably 15-20 years ago. I slid it underneath a refridgerator that she had in her basement. She never found it, and I had kind of forgotten about it. About a year and a half ago, the fridge finally shit the bed, and when we went to move it...There was the spoon!

As for my father, all he had to do was give me "the look," and I knew that if I didn't stop whatever I was doing, I'd get a smack across the face, and that was the start of things. Most of the time, "the look" was the last thing I saw.
 
If it's in the inner city, it's usually gangbangers killing themselves off. No loss. Any other situation, it's the failure of citizens to arm themselves and take responsibility for their own defense. It's always a shame when innocent citizens become the prey of criminals.

"The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory."-----Jeff Cooper
 
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