OregonMeds
Well-Known Member
I am ex army infantry and feel really lost without a weapon right now, let me tell you... I used to have several, seriously always have missed having my good old m16.
I had a .44 for a very short while until I found how impossible it is to shoot the thing for fun without earplugs. I was out camping and forgot to pack them, but still wanted to try out my new toy a S&W 44mag long barrel nickel thing you could beat someone to death with it was so heavy. Anyway I shot that damn thing and the first round left my ears practically bleeding. Did I quit though? No, hard headed army dumbass I kept at it and just tried to overcome the pain and hold it further from my head and move away from echoes etc. Half a box of ammo later I finally gave up. My ears ring to this day because of that damn thing, and I sold it when I got home.
I wish I had it now though.
Anyway, about crime in the US. It's our opressive highly competitive and highly controlled society especially in certain parts of the US which creates the atmosphere that creates the crime. If you're born in a certain environment, especially poor neglected areas, you're more likely to do drugs to escape the shittyness and poverty you live in, even if just weed. Do drugs, even if it's just smoking weed, and many get addicted be it physcial from some hard shit or just mental like with weed, then you can't pass a pee test to get a job. Can't get a job, didn't get shit for education, don't have skills to get out, have any kind of drug or alcohol problem, then people find another way... Addicted to anything and no way to make a living to support it, then you gotta deal it. Usually it's not pretty.
We have so much in common with canada it's not even funny, but they have nothing like our problems with crime and drugs, and it doesn't take too long to see the subtle differences in atmosphere, education, community etc that bring this on ourselves. Look at isolated communities inside the US where people live better lives like amish especially they have zero crime, never a murder not one ever, or even nice old small towns with just friendlier environments they have way less crime, etc, and it's a completely different picture regardless of race it's how you're raised and the atmosphere you're brought up in. Many areas you do have to be able to defend yourself at any moment and that doesn't make for happy friendly people.
It's a perpetual cycle, and it's no accident that the crime and poverty is concentrated mostly in black areas of the US. Keep in mind we are barely out of our apartheid era. Maybe you aren't that old, but I bet your parents remember it, and we're still sufferring from after effects. And we aren't making any of it any better.
I'm not blaming racism for others problems, I'm not black but I'm not racist either. I'm just saying people have inherited bad situations from our past and little has been done to uplift those left in those areas, in fact quite the opposite. Our education system is shit and only getting worse, so is our law enforcement system and jails and prisons and etc etc etc. Nothing is ever done to really rehabilitate people in jail and prison, you just learn to be a badder badass unless you manage to take it upon yourself to change your mind.
If there were no war on drugs, if employment were based on performance and not pee tests, if corrections uplifted people instead of making them harder, etc, there would be no war for street corners... You know what I'm trying to say.
We did it to ourselves and still are to a large degree,
I had a .44 for a very short while until I found how impossible it is to shoot the thing for fun without earplugs. I was out camping and forgot to pack them, but still wanted to try out my new toy a S&W 44mag long barrel nickel thing you could beat someone to death with it was so heavy. Anyway I shot that damn thing and the first round left my ears practically bleeding. Did I quit though? No, hard headed army dumbass I kept at it and just tried to overcome the pain and hold it further from my head and move away from echoes etc. Half a box of ammo later I finally gave up. My ears ring to this day because of that damn thing, and I sold it when I got home.
I wish I had it now though.
Anyway, about crime in the US. It's our opressive highly competitive and highly controlled society especially in certain parts of the US which creates the atmosphere that creates the crime. If you're born in a certain environment, especially poor neglected areas, you're more likely to do drugs to escape the shittyness and poverty you live in, even if just weed. Do drugs, even if it's just smoking weed, and many get addicted be it physcial from some hard shit or just mental like with weed, then you can't pass a pee test to get a job. Can't get a job, didn't get shit for education, don't have skills to get out, have any kind of drug or alcohol problem, then people find another way... Addicted to anything and no way to make a living to support it, then you gotta deal it. Usually it's not pretty.
We have so much in common with canada it's not even funny, but they have nothing like our problems with crime and drugs, and it doesn't take too long to see the subtle differences in atmosphere, education, community etc that bring this on ourselves. Look at isolated communities inside the US where people live better lives like amish especially they have zero crime, never a murder not one ever, or even nice old small towns with just friendlier environments they have way less crime, etc, and it's a completely different picture regardless of race it's how you're raised and the atmosphere you're brought up in. Many areas you do have to be able to defend yourself at any moment and that doesn't make for happy friendly people.
It's a perpetual cycle, and it's no accident that the crime and poverty is concentrated mostly in black areas of the US. Keep in mind we are barely out of our apartheid era. Maybe you aren't that old, but I bet your parents remember it, and we're still sufferring from after effects. And we aren't making any of it any better.
I'm not blaming racism for others problems, I'm not black but I'm not racist either. I'm just saying people have inherited bad situations from our past and little has been done to uplift those left in those areas, in fact quite the opposite. Our education system is shit and only getting worse, so is our law enforcement system and jails and prisons and etc etc etc. Nothing is ever done to really rehabilitate people in jail and prison, you just learn to be a badder badass unless you manage to take it upon yourself to change your mind.
If there were no war on drugs, if employment were based on performance and not pee tests, if corrections uplifted people instead of making them harder, etc, there would be no war for street corners... You know what I'm trying to say.
We did it to ourselves and still are to a large degree,
its like the cops are scarred of the fucking gang bangers around here people make their own rules around here hell even got poppies growing in plain sight lol
