Posted on 08/23/2008 3:38:55 PM PDT by WilliamReading
Leaders of a crime-plagued neighborhood near downtown are tired of talk and task forces. Instead, they're taking up arms and preparing to become a "lock and loaded" community.
Members of the Royal Poinciana Civic Association say they want to start working with a Texas-based gun-rights organization and a local weapons-training academy to verse residents on gun laws and self-protection.
"It is unfortunate, but it really has come down to this," said the association's president, Jack David, whose neighborhood is surrounded by cheap motels, slum apartment buildings and a large cluster of social service agencies.
City officials say the task force has led to some progress, but at its most recent meeting Wednesday, residents' frustration boiled over.
First, residents distributed a flier with the picture of a badly beaten Robin Mejias, 37, who told Hollywood police she was mugged while walking through the neighborhood on Sunday morning. The flier read "All-American Victim," mocking the city's recent All-America City award.
Then group leaders reiterated a controversial demand to combine all the area's agencies — including the COSAC Foundation homeless shelter, several drug rehab centers and a soup kitchen — into a locked compound near the edge of the neighborhood.
"It's your people that are walking around our neighborhood committing all these crimes," yelled one resident at homeless shelter director Sean Cononie, who was in attendance.
"What you are suggesting is putting people behind walls and that's un-Christian-like, it's un-Jewish like, it's completely inhuman and unacceptable," Cononie fired back.
After the meeting, Royal Poinciana leaders said they're moving ahead with plans to become an armed community. If members give formal approval on Sept. 4, the group will apply for grants to help pay for weapons training and to purchase warning signs, said activist Norm Berube, who bought a Glock a month ago.
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“Neighborhood WATCH” becomes “Neighborhood DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT”
I guess maybe for the signs they can shorten it to “Neighborhood ACT”, lol.
The real reason we have a Second Amendment is becoming more and more obvious everyday. Being a victim all the time does get old.
Great! Let’s hope this is true and not just someone “speaking out of both sides of their mouth.” We have a right to defend ourselves and we should not depend on the police for that protection. The United States Supreme Court even stated that the police have no constitutional obligation to protect the citizenry.
JoMa
“whose neighborhood is surrounded by cheap motels, slum apartment buildings and a large cluster of social service agencies.”
Social Service Agencies.
That is exactly the cause of the problem.
Something for nothing rarely results in a good for the community. Usually results in more of the same, IE: alcoholics, bums, crackheads, democRATS, etc.....
In most jurisdictions there are avenues for this.
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“What you are suggesting is putting people behind walls and that’s un-Christian-like, it’s un-Jewish like, it’s completely inhuman and unacceptable,” Cononie fired back.”
Has this idiot ever heard of a prison? Plenty of walls in those. Now Conoie’s “clients” aren’t “criminals” but they sure should be harassed as such. The quality of life in the neighborhood would rebound quite quickly if the vagrants felt the pressure.
*ahem* Committing violent crimes is "un-Christian-like, it's un-Jewish like, it's completely inhuman and unacceptable".
That is all.
Citizens protecting themselves with Constitutionally protected weapons? NEVER!! /in the Democrat world
...but in Liberal towns? No way!
Good, but this will make the leftist politicians very uneasy. They really like the idea of the underclass walking in and taking whatever they want from the privileged people.
Every person has the right, and the obligation, to defend himself and the lives of his family. No politician can take this away from us. Any law that attempts to, is invalid.
Does “Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up” apply?
Keeping the criminal class in among the middle class helps keep the middle class “off balance.” It is an explicit goal of marxists and alinskyites. For the marxists of a century ago it was also a way to keep their shock troops in place for when it became appropriate to actually attack the middle class.
Yet another Blue City success story...
Ordinarily I would be dead set against government grants, but this has long been on my list of things the government can and should do to foster safety of citizens.
Where can I sign up my neighborhood for some of this grant money to equip our Vigilance Committee with military arms?
Lock and load, baby!
Heck I think that if you are a citizen who does not have a impediment from legal gun ownership and you live in a high crime area the 3 day waiting period (for Florida) should be waived. Furthermore you should be deputized and given the right to hold suspicious persons till the police arrive. Or if that don’t work just shoot their sorry no count butts.
You have a typo, which I’ve fixed:
“Heck I think that if you are a citizen...the 3 day waiting period (for everywhere) should be waived.”
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