Bullet Holes

I really like the Mac desktop and the Mac Book but the Mac mouse for the desktop sucks. I got another Logi-tech wireless so that they now both have a good mouse. While at the store, Best Buy, the guy that checks your bags was talking to an employee from a business nearby. A shooting occurred in front of the Best Buy store the day before and a man was killed by the police.  I asked him about it when it came my turn and he said one of the bullets hit the wall where you can still see it.

Not far from there, where my old High School is, there was another shooting, some time back. It involved students at the school.  One day when Wally and I were coming home our street was blocked off because someone on parole had a gun and the police were called in until he surrendered. We were allowed in late in the afternoon.

When I left the store I went to see where the bullet hole was and it was easy to find, the police had circled where the bullet hit. It was a bit startling because the hole was at the height that if someone was standing there, they would have been shot.  The Best Buy employee didn't know why the police shot him but they must have had a good reason to shoot him.

What bothers me is, in this area, which isn't considered a problem area, there seems to be a lot of violence and guns you would associate with a rougher hood.  What does that say about the lives of those that do live in rougher hoods.

I got an idea of what it's like from a co-worker where I use to work who did live in a rough neighborhood. Her children played inside, away from the windows and everyone in her apartment complex put the heaviest furniture, couches and such on the wall that faced the street. No one sat there, everyone sat on the floor, just in case. How bad is just in case? She was proud of her new car until gangbangers came by and shot holes in the windows. They weren't picking her car out, it was in the way of what they wanted to shoot at was all.

Americans having to fortress their homes and apartments to survive day to day life and the right wing thinks we don't need to rein in guns, we need instead to get more guns in the hands of more people, young people going to school, where testosterone rage is a common occurrence.

Wally and I don't have a gun, everyone I know that does, has had some kind of mishap with them, like Bill getting pistol whipped with his own gun until he begged the assailant to kill him. The guy didn't but his brain damage from the beating is significant that he can't add or subtract and he has a plate in his head and bone fragments left that they couldn't remove.

Yeah, more guns is what we need, not to help any of us, but it will make those that make money off guns a lot happier and in America, keeping powerful business interests  happy is  best isn't it.

I don't think we have to wait for global warming to hasten our extinction, we seem to be doing quite well with weapons of our own design we make here and abroad. And if we can't kill the last mountain lion or wolf, there's that pesky neighbor down the street that could use a bullet.