Is this what Long Island's future looks like? (Nassau: work, crime)

[rocafeller05]

Seems like every day I pick up the paper I read of more and more violence on the Island. I hope this isnt a sign of what lies ahead. They need to crack down hard now before it gets out of control! Its sad when things like this is happening at public places......
Teen shot at Jones Beach -- Newsday.com

[GCGuy]

Originally Posted by rocafeller05

Seems like every day I pick up the paper I read of more and more violence on the Island. I hope this isnt a sign of what lies ahead. They need to crack down hard now before it gets out of control! Its sad when things like this is happening at public places......
Teen shot at Jones Beach -- Newsday.com

Only certain people should be allowed out in public. Perhaps filling out an application for entrance would work.

[brassbin]

i was here the weekend, just a day before....

[GCGuy]

Bottom line is that right now, as in the past, LI has some of the lowest crime rates in the enture country. Who knows what will happen in the future. But, with al the complaints about this being a rich man's island, I can't see too many areas becoming crime ridden ghettos. I could be wrong.

[LIMAMA4]

I've lived here all my life and I have never seen things this bad. Long Island (Nassau County) has really changed! Looking forward to moving.

[brassbin]

a rich man's island on one hand, and a bunch of illegals living in small concentrated enclaves on the side, i think this is what some people are saying where LI is headed to

[rocafeller05]

The reason I posted this is because it was to close to comfort. I spend ALOT of time at Jones Beach and Robert Moses in the summer months. And for this to happen at a public place just blew my hair back. What if this hoodlum would have missed and hit a innocent bystander? Its something that us normal people should not have to think "what if" thoughts.

[GCGuy]

I hear you. That's why the liberal slant that so many on this board take blows my mind. Need to crack down on things like this and remember what made LI great.

[OhBeeHave]

Reading the story just broke my heart. Just a few days ago I wrote about how years ago my friends and I would bicycle to Jones Beach. Jones Beach was innocent fun, a delightful place to cool off. I never associated the Jones Beach of my youth with such violence. That innocent memory has just been robbed from me. Never again will I think of Jones Beach as coconut sun lotion and the Fudgy Wudgy bar man, radios tuned to 'BAB. Walking through the cool dark tunnel on the way back...

This should send a signal to those who choose to wear blinders that our society is going to hell. Laws are only for the law abiding; the skell that lurks about EVERYWHERE could care less about the law. Yeah, keep letting the mutts get away with this slap on the wrist mentality. Keep telling us about how their 'poor' childhood drove them to this, how they are 'misunderstood.' Let the ACLU jump in and defend these mutts claiming some nonsense about how their civil rights are violated.

But what about the man whose jaw is wired shut? What about the families who spent a day at the beach, only to have their young children witness this heinous crime. (Newsday reports there was a 2 year old with her family in the vicinity of the shooting. Another woman's car was hit by bullets!)

This isn't the Bronx nor is it the wild west. Jones Beach was raped by marauding hoods yesterday, who didn't give a rat's patootie about anyone other than themselves.

I supposed the Donald Trump will now put a spin on this, using it to claim that this restaurant/catering facility will bring in a better class of people?

[KarenBo]

I can't speak to how much this one incident reflects what is happening all over LI but I do think that gun violence throughout the country signals a lack of compassion and understanding in people today.

Everywhere I look it seems that people think only of themselves with little thought for how their actions affect others. I think we have become so disconnected from each other through technology that we don't have a real sense of community anymore. Its not just the poor youth of America in gangs... Road rage kills just as many, if not more than gun violence.

I don't know the solution to this problem but I see it increasing in my students. Some of them are so filled with rage that they become violent over the smallest things. When I ask why they are angry, or what it is they want, many of them can't even answer. I can certainly imagine that this shooting was over some misunderstanding that could have been solved another way, but because one person can't see the other person's point of view it's "shoot now, think later."

Perhaps Chris Rock had the easiest solution. Make bullets so expensive that people will think twice before using them.

“Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.”
--Chris Rock