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What kind of people do you think listen to "music" like that? Criminals, thugs, and wannabes.
I'm afraid that your post indicates a lot of bias on your part. As I said to someone else, do you have any numbers to prove that only (in your words) "criminals, thugs, and wannabes" wear hoodies up?
I'm afraid that your post indicates a lot of bias on your part. As I said to someone else, do you have any numbers to prove that only (in your words) "criminals, thugs, and wannabes" wear hoodies up?
Is that a realistic thing to request? Do you really think there has been a study on how many thugs and criminals wear their hoods up?
Just because I don't have statistics on it doesn't make it true. The sky is blue, can you give me a study to prove this fact?
Operative words, as someone previously said "used to be". I work in a pediatrician's office; the young dads come in with all kinds of head gear on, and they are mostly white and/or hispanic. I recall our former hero quarterback, Tim Tebow, giving a press conference with some sort of a stocking cap on during the playoffs. Was he on his way out to rob a convenience store?
Regardless of how CD members think Trayvon "looked" in the 7-11, he did not attempt to rob the store, of this much we can be sure b/c of the video.
Nor have I seen such signs, not in banks either.
The Colorado Bankers Association created a "No Hats, No Hoods, No Sunglasses" poster about three years ago that any Colorado bank can use; it's part of a national campaign. The ANA branch at 3033 East First Avenue in Cherry Creek North recently posted a sign on its front door outlining the prohibited garments, but the policy is nothing new.
Trayvon was wearing hoodie up in convenience store. People seem to be using this "fact" as the basis for posting their beliefs that he was "no good" or to imply he was a "gang member" etc. which obviously has led some people to think he started the fight and Zimmerman acted in accordance with SYG.
Actually, it is mostly imagined. No, I'm not going to google the statistics, but you are welcome to do the research yourself in order to back up your statement that there is a "wave of crime" going on. I will, however, give you this article:
"The last time the crime rate for serious crime – murder, rape, robbery, assault – fell to these levels, gasoline cost 29 cents a gallon and the average income for a working American was $5,807."
Nothing to brag about compared to other industrialized countries or Canada.
Nothing to brag about compared to other industrialized countries or Canada.
What it means is that it's NOT TRUE that we are in the midst of a "crime wave." It is a comparison of crime statistics in THIS COUNTRY. Crime is now down to levels of crime in 1963! It's now 2012. That's GOOD. That's an improvement! And, yes, it is something to brag about.
It also indicates that those people out there screaming that we should be terrified of all the criminals on the street, and that we need a SYG law because crime is so huge and everywhere, are WRONG. They've convinced people they need to be afraid, they need to have a gun at all times to defend themselves, and they have helped support the NRA agenda with no basis in support of the contention that there is a CRIME WAVE. Florida's SYG law was written by a past NRA president, the first woman NRA president, and an NRA lobbyist.
I'm not opposed the right to own a gun or guns. I do, however, think a SYG law is reprehensible and NOT NECESSARY. It's "overkill" in fact. Self defense laws are more than enough.
Things are winding down, and people are just posting MUS
Why do you care?
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