It wasn't gang related and didn't quite meet the criteria of "drive-by". What happened was a guy broke up with a girl, she didn't take this well so she drove while a friend took shots at the ex as they sped through town. The shooter actually stood up through the sun roof to get a better shot.
Everyone was caught.
My son witnessed this. I am here to tell you that if he had been shot, I would have immediately shed my pacifist demeanor and taken up hunting.
Now, we have invested a lot of money in bringing peace to the Middle East, that place where we went to kill and be killed in the name of P.O.F. (positive oil flow). I am wondering if the trillion dollars spent on this little "oops there is no threat after all" event were spent elsewhere, how could they have been better put to use.
I suggest we look within. There are a lot more threats to us inside our borders than there are over there (wherever that may be). We have gangs everywhere. Why is that? We have drugs everywhere. Why is that? We kids dropping out of school. We have prisons bursting at the seams.
As a country, we have acute appendicitis (<- hard word to spell) and are ignoring it in favor of helping another country with its bout with the common cold. Why? Well, if you don't stop the cold there, someone may bring it here."
Let's suppose you could measure "Bad". For example, terrorism has a Bad Value of X. We arrived at that number by looking at costs, fear factors, future implications etc. Everything we could measure goes into the pot. This gives up a Bad Value of X.
Now, let's calculate the Bad Value of drugs. Throw in the gang violence. The impact on families. The cost. The jails. The killings. Throw it all in there. When you are done, lets call this Bad Value Z.
My guess is that the Bad Value of Z is a hundred times greater than the Bad Value of X.
We need a Department of Homeland Security that protects us from ourselves. How many drug busts went unbusted because we spent money hiring people to make sure I take my shoes off when I go through airport security.
The troubles of Mexico are coming. Like a Stephen King novel - the evil is heading our way.
It's coming because we are calling to it. We are the consumers. Those drugs they cook - those are for us.
They are coming unless we chose otherwise.
This should be the issue. Not fences. Not laws. The issue should be action - not against those that would come in, but against those that are already here. This is not an immigration issue. This is our issue. This is about us and our very own enemy within.
J
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Need to get some work done - but had to chime in as this touches on so many combined issues. Can't do much with them all, but have to say, the chaos across our border in Mexico is indeed spilling over. Someone once said that the US would fall without a single shot being fired. (Wish I could remember who it was.) They give us what we want - drugs. Without our consumption - supply and demand at work here - crime on all ends would diminish dramatically. I lived in a small town on the remote Island of Hawaii where someone once printed an article in the front page of the local paper that caught my eye. They traced every single crime that had happened that year in our town(about four months) back to drug use of some kind. But there is so much more at work shreading the fabric of our world on home turf - working families that have to leave children alone all afternoon to fend for themselves while they work to feed and shelter. Lost ancient knowledge as we sit in front of the TV instead of together and bonding as a family, or reading some intelligent book. Instant gratification glorified and encouraged. Lady Gaga (oxymoron)as a symbol of how decantant we've become. Ok I'm done, jumping off the soapbox - gotta go.
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