Posted on 03/15/2013 5:53:48 AM PDT by Kartographer
If you even begin to point a gun, or a knife, at me you’d better be faster and more accurate, and I’m damned sure not gonna aim at your feet.
The military.
Getting what you can out of the crappy school and making the attempt to be somebody and do something other than a felon.
Hanging around with some of the community successes in legit activity — pester the politician, store owner, local cop, firefighters, or other people that are actually doing stuff to learn and grow and make yourself known.
Those are 3 paths right off the top of my head. Everybody has there own cross to bear — the direction of my own life was pretty touch and go for a few years. Point a gun at a cop, I don’t care if you are 6 or 60, and that will probably work out poorly for all concerned. Frankly, this boy had to have some people somewhere, but they aparrently did not give a $—t enough about him to teach a basic survival skill — “don’t point a gun at a cop, boy!”. Mamma seems to be pretty good at wondering ‘why’? Perhaps a few minutes with the closest mirror may give her some answers.
Plenty of kids grow up in the ‘hood, grow up poor, grow in f’ed up circumstances. Very few of them make this piss poor of a choice when they are teenagers.
Seriously and ideally, if the women only had sex after marriage to a well vetted, established, and upright man,
there would be a lot more established and upright men to choose from to marry.
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Exactly. It’s the women who control the culture. And there are not enough women doing their duty in this area.
Feminism “empowered” them to fornicate like they thought men always have.
When is it time to enforce RICO statutes, arrest and indict them???
The last major one that I can think of was back in the 40s and it destroyed most of Europe.
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I'd disagree with that, I think. I'm a significantly different (I'd like to think, "better") person now, than I was, say, in my 20s. But, I also have a solid, long term marriage and kids - life events that change a person.
But, I suppose, her point taken literally - a man at, say, age 28 and a year or two into a marriage isn't going to be significantly different from one that a girl started dating at age 24 or 25.
And "pick better" is always good advice. No matter what. :-)
Amen to that!
I had never heard of it - thanks for sharing. The ending captures exactly what’s going on.
So, if one of those “disadvantaged” teens points a gun at someone, they should go ahead and let him pull the trigger?
They are called "the Interstate Highway System".
There is a whole, wonderful country outside Flatbush. Anyone stupid enough to spend their life in one of those urban hellholes you describe deserves nothing better.
That's a heartwarming sentiment, but don't kid yourself. Many of these young urban hoodlums are second and third generation ferals. The debased micro culture they're born into is all some of them know. Aspiring to a normal, hard working, law-abiding existence is something that's beyond the reach of reality for many of these kids.
Gangsterism today is no longer about stupid turf wars. It's about money. LOTS of money. Money by the bucketfuls. Some of these kids make $1,500 a day selling crack and other hard drugs. Once they've become fully immersed in that life, there's no going back for them.
Losing his life to the cops was probably just the price of doing business for this kid.
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