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Mini Rant...
Drive by shooting right in front of my house last night. Car was shooting at my neighbor's house. History of trouble with that family.
This hasn't been the only shooting around the neighborhood this year. We've heard shots a few times since 2020. Plus my kids and wife were at a nearby park a few years previous, when a shooting occurred pretty close to them (5pm on a sunday with a park full of families. WTF!).
I love my neighborhood, and living the urban life, walking distance to great food and shops, but I have kids, and this shit is getting to be ridiculous. But moving, selling and buying a house, is a stress I don't want to add.
In a weird way, I've been around this stuff most of my life (living in San Francisco, Oakland and berkeley), so it's almost acceptable in my head. But should it be?
- NoOBBTKN
- Texas?PhanLo
- Portland Oregonwagshaft
- Try living in Europe to realise the insanity of living in the USA with a population better armed than a 3rd world country.shapesalad
- SF to Europe wouldn't be so bad a move.PhanLo
- I can’t even sleep at night without the sound of gunshots and helicoptersscarabin
- Imagine thinking that all of the USA is anything remotely like this.monospaced
- When I was 9 somebody got shot in the parking lot behind my building. We heard: "You kilt my brother", more shots then sirens. Good times.palimpsest
- This was in a new apartment right in front of my school after we got evicted from the previous one.palimpsest
- Sounds sketchy. GTFO!dbloc
- Back in SF I was stopped at an intersection when the car behind me unloaded on the people at the bus stop on my right, I hit the gas quick and was out...GuyFawkes
- I felt jacked on adrenaline, then I got home 1 block away, nd as soon as I walked into my house, I hugged my wife and started crying out of nowhereGuyFawkes
- The US is nuts, and this is coming from a guy who lives in Sinaloa, ya'll gotta change shit up there.GuyFawkes
- I've had my best friend murdered by gun violence as well. It's crazy that this shit is normal. There's a definitive GTFO impulse that is bubbling up.wagshaft
- What the fuck! I live in Brooklyn and it feels safe AF********
- My friend was killed when I lived in Oakland. I'm in a new town now, but with similar problems it seems.wagshaft
- Juss wakin' up in tha mornnin', gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd
No barkin' from the dog, no smog
And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog_niko - Did you have to use your AK Niko? If you didn't, that's a good day.PhanLo
- Did mama make breakfast w/ no hog?GuyFawkes
- I was pushed to the ground at gunpoint and robbed in San Francisco.monospaced
- This is nuts. I've been robbed at knife point or just punched, but never seen a gun here on the UK streets.Ianbolton
- @ian, we had armed response police to a neighbour over the road who was obviously a dealer, had no idea (I would have purchased off him)fadein11
- incredible watching them with their automatics on a UK street, rarely seen on these shores unless at London Euston or airports.fadein11
- This lump on my neck will probably go away...monNom
- no.
it should not be.
jesus fucking christ.exador1 - As a canuck here, it honestly blows my fucking mind that anyone could possibly be that blasé about shit like that.exador1
- but i understand that if you grow up around something, eventually you get desensitized to it.exador1
- but holy fuck dude. no. it's not normal.
I've gone my entire fucking life without being around shit like that.exador1