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Whatever helps you sleep better at night. But the last I checked nobody ever got killed by a stray knifing.
I sleep well at night because I avoid the "Hood". Let's take a good look at where every NYC killing happen? The NY papers like to make NYC is filled with blood everywhere. This is not 1990 when mothers were sleeping with their kids in bath tubs to avoid bullets. Christ, If you would have told me that white people were moving into Harlem or Bed Stuy or Bushwick in 1990, I would have called you a nut. NYC real estate is doing great. Crime is very low for a city of over 8 million folks. Unfortunately , In areas where the population is mostly black or latino, crime is still a problem but not the proportions of 20-25 years ago. Unless you think Detectives are burying corpses to keep homicide numbers down
I sleep well at night because I avoid the "Hood". Let's take a good look at where every NYC killing happen? The NY papers like to make NYC is filled with blood everywhere. This is not 1990 when mothers were sleeping with their kids in bath tubs to avoid bullets. Christ, If you would have told me that white people were moving into Harlem or Bed Stuy or Bushwick in 1990, I would have called you a nut. NYC real estate is doing great. Crime is very low for a city of over 8 million folks. Unfortunately , In areas where the population is mostly black or latino, crime is still a problem but not the proportions of 20-25 years ago. Unless you think Detectives are burying corpses to keep homicide numbers down
Crime's not a major problem in Cambria Heights at all.. never felt uncomfortable there. I've stayed there for several months recently with my boyfriend and his parents and they say the same thing. I used to jog outside at night and never encountered anything that would be considered "seedy".
The cops fired 28 rounds and hit a bunch of bystanders outside of the Empire State Building to kill a murderer a few years ago. Anyone that thinks it's just in the "ghettos" is either laughably dishonest or not paying attention.
I live in a predominately polish neighborhood. Within the 8yrs that I've lived here I have yet to hear 1 gunshot. Meanwhile if i were to drive 20 minutes into Brownsville, gunshots, shootings, murder are the norm. Why is that?
POVERTY.
I'm also appx 15-20 minutes away (by car) from Brownsville in a predominately black middle-class neighborhood and rarely if ever hear gunshots.
Crime's not a major problem in Cambria Heights at all.. never felt uncomfortable there. I've stayed there for several months recently with my boyfriend and his parents and they say the same thing. I used to jog outside at night and never encountered anything that would be considered "seedy".
Thank you. There is no such thing as a "dangerous" middle-class neighborhood regardless of the race of its inhabitants, but you can't tell the keyboard klansmen otherwise lol...
Crime's not a major problem in Cambria Heights at all.. never felt uncomfortable there. I've stayed there for several months recently with my boyfriend and his parents and they say the same thing. I used to jog outside at night and never encountered anything that would be considered "seedy".
Again, as your fellow NRA member posted, the safest countries in the world have much tighter gun control laws then anywhere in the US. Your point is moot. Especially considering that it's ridiculously easy to circumvent any gun restriction/regulation thanks to easy gun access in other states/cities and the unregulated second hand market, where the majority of these illegal weapons are obtained.
NYC is the safest big city in the country. Period. Much safer than other big cities with lax gun laws, especially considering it's size.
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While I don't know if this applies to you, Airbourneguy, I find it hilarious that conservatives insist that guns don't kill people, people, do, yet at the same time shout out that drugs kill people and should therefore remain banned. At least remain consistent in your beliefs.
I'm not against gun ownership, but it should be heavily regulated and monitored. Enforcement agencies should also have proper resources and funding, otherwise all the regulation in the world means nothing if you can't enforce it. Same applies to drugs. Logic = consistency = safer world.
Good try conflating two issues with completely different concerns and political considerations. But the "don't tread on me" conservativism to which I ascribe most definitely believes the ghetto should have the right to drug itself into oblivion. Freedom is an absolute right which should not be infringed. And that includes the right to kill yourself with drugs and ruin your family. I'm totally okay with that as long as we recognize that the principle of "until you harm others" includes the fact that you destroying your family should not mean I have to pay for their welfare. Legalize ALL drugs and eliminate ALL social welfare. Now that's a conservative value I can get behind.
As far as guns, yeah, whatever you say. I don't go back and forth with you people any more. It's not worth it. Inner city crime is not a valid reason to infringe upon me. Come get them. Good luck. That's as far as the conversation should go from now on. Let's see who comes out on top.
I live in a predominately polish neighborhood. Within the 8yrs that I've lived here I have yet to hear 1 gunshot. Meanwhile if i were to drive 20 minutes into Brownsville, gunshots, shootings, murder are the norm. Why is that?
White NRA members and southern "lax" gun laws, duh. Liberals say so!
I'm also appx 15-20 minutes away (by car) from Brownsville in a predominately black middle-class neighborhood and rarely if ever hear gunshots.
It's much more than poverty that's driving such violent behavior. There are many poor white area's throughout this country yet I dont see them shooting/killing one another on a daily basis. There are many poor asians living in public housing and surviving off of welfare. I know because I went to high school close to chinatown and knew many of them. Why arent they killing one another as a result of "poverty"?
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