Is any city or town safe to live in these days? What is this world coming to? I know crime is everywhere, but when it literally happens in your own backyard, it’s a little too real.
Luke and I came home this morning to see a news helicopter hovering over our neighborhood. It was there for quite some time, so I knew something bad must have happened. After all, these people never report good news, right? I got on my laptop and checked the local news to see that there had been a shooting in our neighborhood! It was apparently some sort of domestic dispute, but it ended up in the streets with multiple shots fired. This all happened in the morning when children were getting ready to leave for school.
I have never felt very safe in our neighborhood, but now I really don’t! I’m hoping this was an isolated incident, but I can’t help but feel very creeped out by this event!!
Would it be safer to live in a country that didn’t allow people to own firearms? I know this is a topic which is debated frequently. People are supposed to have background checks etc. done before they buy a gun, but you never know what will make someone snap. I guess I’m still holding out hope that there is that “perfect” place to live.
God how scary for you. So lucky you weren’t around at the time.
Every time a shooting from America filters through to our news I am truly grateful we live in a country where firearms are illegal. The thought of lving in a country where any person you walk past on the street could be carrying a gun truly terrifies me, especially that it seems to be teens who get hold of guns & lose the plot & go on sprees. I find it pretty shocking that the average joe has access to a device designed for killing.
But even in a country where guns are illegal, I turn on the news every day & see just as much shocking violence here, even alot of gang violence involving illegal firearms.
No matter where you live there just seem to be more & more nutjobs everywhere. I’m truly terrified of when my kids are highschool age when I see how much gang violence & bashings & alcholol induced violence goes on. It seems to get worse with each generation.
I guess it is true that making guns illegal doesn’t necessarily end gun violence, but it should curb it a little bit. It just scares me that apparently, people have loaded weapons next to their front doors here! I guess I am really naive to think we don’t “need” one? I just don’t know what can be done anymore to feel safe. I have never truly felt safe in our neighborhood, and it’s not the “ghetto”. I lived in Japan for 2 years and had no fears riding the subways and trains in Tokyo by myself in the middle of the night. That has to say something about their culture vs. ours.
Maybe we should start our own country of happy hippies;)