My View: The Upswing of crime in my Area and WHO is to Blame

The government enabled the problem of such things by enablement. When it's no longer a survival issue to make sure that your kids aren't doing drugs or getting pregnant, and any critisism of minority culture is "bigoted" it's not a surprise that such things spread.

I would say that the government is as responsible as you would be if you let a man known to be a druggie live at your house. All that happens is that you delay "hitting bottom" for that person, thus pretty much encouraging him to continue to do drugs. Same on the government -- If they'll give you welfare even though you're able bodied and are obviously not seriously looking for work, you're preventing them from waking up in the gutter and realizing that being poor sucks. If you pay a woman to have baby after baby and never get married, she's not going to think twice about who she jumps in bed with.

 

well it's worked so well in the middle east, doncha think?

 

Social Justice seeking Diversity at any cost Progressive Left wants the Right to Vote to be given to recently arrived " Future Citizenry".

 

Plenty wrong there. I have nothing but comtempt for that post.

It's a cycle. School ain't cool = don't accept a free education. Don't respect women. Rape. Steal. It's okay; no one will judge them cuz they're victims.
Don't be a husband. Be a baby daddy. Mom's just a ho and a pain in the neck. Who cares.

Bull. To accept a life of crap is to want a life of crap.

 

Why should I blame you? I don't think about you. YOU are not part of the situation.
Honey, the world does not revolve around YOU.

 

Are you sober?

 

I didn't lose any bennies. I don't get any bennies. I just pay taxes.

 

I didn't say that.

 

Fair enough. I'll wait for your speech. Instructions????

 

I don't think it's all that complex... folks in rural areas and small towns are easy targets for criminal types because they don't expect to be victims. Folks who live in big cities are used to keeping their guard up.... folks move to small towns so they don't have to worry about crime.

Racial demographics don't seem to matter that much. My innercity neighborhood is only 13% white, but while there's a lot of black-on-black and brown-on-brown crime, there's very little minority-on-white crime in Dallas.

Maybe your area should schedule a gun show in the local arena this spring, Trinnity? Nothing like an armed citzenry to deter crime.

 

I don't know what to say. WOW. People aren't responsible for their own criminal behavior. It's the fault of Republicans.

Stop lying.

 

Social Justice demands suspension of reality

 

I'm not gonna move. I have over a hundred acres here. It's been in my husband's family since the 1800s. I know the law. I know what I am and am not allowed to do to defend myself and my property. I won't be careless about my property. I won't be bullied. I won't be a victim. I AM prepared to do what it takes including killing in self defense and live with the consequences, both short and long term. I am well practiced in shooting. Nothing about this is a joke. I do not take it lightly.

Life is not easy. To think so is a delusion. We live. We die. None of it is easy.
I've lived in the city. I live in the country. I'm nobody's fool. I don't play.

 

we have the castle doctrine here.

any black that steps onto my property will be shot on sight.

that should minimize temptation

 

Bull. Anyone who invades my home will see how wrong that statement is.

I am a "worker". I don't make excuses for myself, or criminals.

Bottom line:

I've never robbed anyone. Should anyone try to rob me ,they'll get a load of lead.
Simple, logical, no hesitation.

 

What you're describing in your OP is becoming common. Many people in rural areas are now gone all day just like folks in town. The thing is, with a lot of property, it's easier for criminals to go unseen/unheard. And now there's the fact of cities encroaching on rural areas which makes those areas closer for criminals. Most of these areas are unincorporated so they rely on the sheriff's office for policing and they usually aren't staffed well enough to do a good job.

Property crime is up in my area, too. It's often in those once rural areas that are now butting up to developed areas. There's no good solution for it other than to not leave your property unattended. Either that or move.

I live in the older part of my town and there's crime here, too. The thing is, many of these criminals are caught. We've got a pretty good police force and neighbors are close enough by to see what's going on.

Probably your real problem is that the criminals know the cops are understaffed and there's little risk of getting caught. Once they realize that, they'll flock to an area like flies to a turd. it's an unpleasant fact of life these days.

 

A few Black guys? Wake the hell up. One of them shot at me from the woods on my own property, while I was trying to secure the vandalized house. You know nothing of what's going on here.

I don't have time to be pissed. I'm too busy trying to keep my own home safe. I didn't ask for this. I didn't start it. BUT I WILL end it if I have the chance.

I say to those who vandalized my property, robbed my next door neighbor, the other neighbors down the street, the fat Black crackhead teenager with a record who's named "meatloaf" who was trespassing on my property and shot at me from down in the woods on my property when my son was standing next to me ? ( that's right, I know who it was - I won't detail why) - You think I'm to blame or have no truck with him and them? You think I don't know that they pretend to hunt while they're really scouting for opportunities to break into homes? You think that I haven't found out from my observing neighbors that they walk up and down the road and call each other on cell phones and tell each other when it's clear and not clear to break in? Do you think I don't know they're taking the stolen appliances, copper wiring et al to the scrap metal place 5 miles away?

Do you think my gun is not loaded 24/7 and that the local sheriff's department's lieutenant (who is Black and has my respect as a law enforcement official and an educated and decent family man) hasn't informed me of my rights under the law and told me in no uncertain terms to do what is necessary?

Do you know what you can do with excuses for criminals?

 

Don't let these people judge you. They don't know crap about what's going on in your neighborhood. They're talking out of their asses.

 

did he say shoot him dead and drag him into the house if you have to?

 

Trinnity - I think we are witnessing the early stages of what may turn out to be a very serious breakdown of decency and order, not only here in the US, but in other places around the globe as well. The foundation stones of society are being washed away in what may become a hellish flood of deliberate madness. This may be just the beginning of some very dangerous and destructive times ahead.

The reasons for the madness? Well, you stated a few in your op. I have an eerie feeling there's more to it than the Left's usual assault on responsibility and ethical sense. I quoted Yeats' great poem, "The Second Coming", in a post a few days ago as an illustrative comment on what I think may be happening.

Even though this was written concerning conditions at the aftermath of World War One, it's apocalyptic imagery fits perfectly with the new trends in barbarism here and around the world. One might aptly call it "Helter-Skelter", for the forces behind the disintegration of society are anarchic and hateful. Yeats' vision of this Helter-Skelter unraveling of order and its impending consequences proceeds from "Spiritus Mundi" - literally the "spirit of the world". For Yeats this was humanity's collective consciousness or perhaps also its collective memory. Spiritus Mundi may turn out to be beyond what Yeats himself was envisioning at that time. The various destructive efforts by the Left are merely the surface ripples of a roiling cauldron of disorder and mayhem that are gathering momentum under the sea of humanity - turning and turning in the widening gyre... so to speak.

 

No. I don't have to do that at all.
The law has changed here recently. If someone comes on my property and threatens myself, or family or property by words, deeds, implied intent, or physical action, I'm fully entitled to take any means necessary.
The lieutenant told me so.

 

OP
If you fear and cower to the confinds of your shelter. Just turn off the network and cable news. You will feel safer and less fearfull..

If you want to blame something, there are a lot of minorities out there, just go find some and tell your kids they are the cause of all their problems.

Or you can go to another part of the world where there is less crime and be happy. But stay away from socialist contries, I here they have Obama policies and their countries are a mess.


LLLOOOOOLLLLL......

 

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If the liberal agenda was to blame for high crime then we wouldn't have towns that are highly liberal that are low on crime. Blaming this on the liberal agenda is just as dumb as it would be to blame it on the conservative agenda.

Freakin' people have the weirdest thought processes.

 

You are NOT paying attention. I know you can read, so what's the problem? I'm not cowering. I plainly said I'm prepared to do what is necessary and live with it.

I blamed who and what IS to blame.

I'm staying right here and defending my family and property. This is MY HOME.
I don't take advice from collectivists and statists. I'm not a coward who runs and hides. SO, I won't take the advice of those who would do just that.

 

I fail to see where any of this is in any way humorous. It would appear people are shooting at people for simply being in their own neighborhood.

There are sufficient statistics available that demonstrate that poverty does not cause crime.

But the final statement here, to avoid socialist countries is insulting to anyone's intelligence and absurd. The United States has one of the highest crime rates in the world. The political system does not create crime any more than poverty does.