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03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:31 am

anygunanywhere wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:35 pm

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:19 am

Excaliber wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:00 am

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:22 pm

Ruark wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 10:26 am What a ghastly mental picture. I'm sitting here in our quiet, peaceful, safe little gated community 30 miles out of town, just shaking my head at how some people in this country have to live. But as some have said, they're getting what they voted for. These people will have these experiences, then turn around and re-elect the same governors and mayors and legislators.

I'm wondering if eventually this will generate a vigilante justice situation, where residents of a neighborhood will form armed groups to police their areas and (hopefully) beat the living crap out of anybody who dares commit these acts. Sounds extreme, but something's gotta give eventually; this can't go on forever.

Looking at the issue historically, vigilantism is one possible outcome. It occurs where folks have some backbone and refuse to live in fear.

The other option is total submission and resignation to being victimized whenever the local thugs get around to them. In most of the major cities option two appears to be more likely.

I intentionally try to avoid "big cities". On the rare occasion I find myself in one, I notice that most people seem to live in a 2 foot bubble around themselves. They walk along not noticing anything or anybody around them. I swear I think I could walk down the sidewalk in a pair of underwear and not be noticed. It is weird.

So when are you going to visit San Francisco?

When hell freezes over.

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:19 am

Excaliber wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:00 am

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:22 pm

Ruark wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 10:26 am What a ghastly mental picture. I'm sitting here in our quiet, peaceful, safe little gated community 30 miles out of town, just shaking my head at how some people in this country have to live. But as some have said, they're getting what they voted for. These people will have these experiences, then turn around and re-elect the same governors and mayors and legislators.

I'm wondering if eventually this will generate a vigilante justice situation, where residents of a neighborhood will form armed groups to police their areas and (hopefully) beat the living crap out of anybody who dares commit these acts. Sounds extreme, but something's gotta give eventually; this can't go on forever.

Looking at the issue historically, vigilantism is one possible outcome. It occurs where folks have some backbone and refuse to live in fear.

The other option is total submission and resignation to being victimized whenever the local thugs get around to them. In most of the major cities option two appears to be more likely.

I intentionally try to avoid "big cities". On the rare occasion I find myself in one, I notice that most people seem to live in a 2 foot bubble around themselves. They walk along not noticing anything or anybody around them. I swear I think I could walk down the sidewalk in a pair of underwear and not be noticed. It is weird.